The honors student -- Barbara -- Career -- The place I want to tell you about... -- Sick people -- Rare and ever rarer in this world of empirical facts... -- The cartel -- April, the story of a love affair -- The blind mirror -- The grand house opposite -- Strawberries -- This morning, a letter arrived... -- Youth -- Stationmaster Fallmerayer -- The triumph of a beauty, a novella -- The bust of the Emperor, a novella -- The Leviathan, a novella.