The Corpse Exhibition

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First published in Penguin Books 2014

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The stories in The Corpse Exhibition appeared in Hassan Blasim’s The Madman of Freedom Square and The Iraqi Christ, both published in Great Britain by Comma Press. The following selections appeared in The Madman of Freedom Square: “The Corpse Exhibition,” “An Army Newspaper,” “The Madman of Freedom Square,” “The Composer,” “The Reality and the Record,” “That Inauspicious Smile,” and “The Nightmares of Carlos Fuentes.” The following stories were published in The Iraqi Christ: “The Killers and the Compass,” “The Green Zone Rabbit,” “Crosswords,” “The Hole,” “The Iraqi Christ,” “A Thousand and One Knives,” and “The Song of the Goats.” “The Reality and the Record” was first published in Madinah: City Stories from the Middle East, edited by Joumana Haddad (Comma Press, 2008). “The Green Zone Rabbit” was first published by Words Without Borders.

Excerpt from The Forgotten Language: An Introduction to the Understanding of Dreams, Fairy Tales and Myths by Erich Fromm (New York: Rinehart & Co., Inc., 1951).

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