An ideal literary place during Christmas: A time of expectation and disappointment, of exuberance and melancholy, of abundance and deprivation, of spectacle and nudity together, a time of memories and evaluations, a moment of reverence but also provocation that stimulates literary reflexes within its contradictory diversity.
From Andersen's fairy tale to Vladimir Nabokov's ironic narrative, from Hawthorne's gothic story to Dylan Thomas's autobiographical reminiscence, from Dostoevsky to Tournier, and from Bowen to Updike, different facets of the most unique celebration of the year, in some of the most beautiful Christmas tales.
[Excerpt from the text on the back cover of the edition]
