Collected Fictions

by Borges, Jorge Luis (Author); Hurley, Andrew (Translator)

• ISBN13: 9780140286809
• ISBN10: 0140286802
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-09-01
• Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)

Summary

In honor of the centenary of the birth of Borges, this collection of his fiction has been gathered into a single volume. "An unparalleled treasury of marvels."--"Chicago Tribune."

Table of Contents

A Universal History of Iniquity (1935)	p. 1
Preface to the First Edition	p. 3
Preface to the 1954 Edition	p. 4
The Cruel Redeemer Lazarus Morell	p. 6
The Improbable Impostor Tom Castro	p. 13
The Widow Ching--Pirate	p. 19
Monk Eastman, Purveyor of Iniquities	p. 25
The Disinterested Killer Bill Harrigan	p. 31
The Uncivil Teacher of Court Etiquette Kotsuke no Suke	p. 35
Hakim, the Masked Dyer of Merv	p. 40
Man on Pink Corner	p. 45
Et cetera	p. 53
Index of Sources	p. 64
Fictions (1944)	p. 65
The Garden of Forking Paths (1941)	p. 67
Foreword	p. 67
Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius	p. 68
The Approach to Al-Mu'tasim	p. 82
Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote	p. 88
The Circular Ruins	p. 96
The Lottery in Babylon	p. 101
A Survey of the Works of Herbert Quain	p. 107
The Library of Babel	p. 112
The Garden of Forking Paths	p. 119
Artifices (1944)	p. 129
Foreword	p. 129
Funes, His Memory	p. 131
The Shape of the Sword	p. 138
The Theme of the Traitor and the Hero	p. 143
Death and the Compass	p. 147
The Secret Miracle	p. 157
Three Versions of Judas	p. 163
The End	p. 168
The Cult of the Phoenix	p. 171
The South	p. 174
The Aleph (1949)	p. 181
The Immortal	p. 183
The Dead Man	p. 196
The Theologians	p. 201
Story of the Warrior and the Captive Maiden	p. 208
A Biography of Tadeo Isidoro Cruz (1829-1874)	p. 212
Emma Zunz	p. 215
The House of Asterion	p. 220
The Other Death	p. 223
Deutsches Requiem	p. 229
Averroes' Search	p. 235
The Zahir	p. 242
The Writing of the God	p. 250
Ibn-Hakam al-Bokhari, Murdered in His Labyrinth	p. 255
The Two Kings and the Two Labyrinths	p. 263
The Wait	p. 265
The Man on the Threshold	p. 269
The Aleph	p. 274
Afterword	p. 287
The Maker (1960)	p. 289
Foreword: For Leopoldo Lugones	p. 291
The Maker	p. 292
Dreamtigers	p. 294
A Dialog About a Dialog	p. 295
Toenails	p. 296
Covered Mirrors	p. 297
Argumentum Ornithologicum	p. 299
The Captive	p. 300
The Mountebank	p. 301
Delia Elena San Marco	p. 303
A Dialog Between Dead Men	p. 304
The Plot	p. 307
A Problem	p. 308
The Yellow Rose	p. 310
The Witness	p. 311
Martin Fierro	p. 312
Mutations	p. 314
Parable of Cervantes and the Quixote	p. 315
Paradiso, XXXI, 108	p. 316
Parable of the Palace	p. 317
Everything and Nothing	p. 319
Ragnarok	p. 321
Inferno, I, 32	p. 323
Borges and I	p. 324
Museum	p. 325
On Exactitude in Science	p. 325
In Memoriam, J.F.K.	p. 326
Afterword	p. 327
In Praise of Darkness (1969)	p. 329
Foreword	p. 331
The Ethnographer	p. 334
Pedro Salvadores	p. 336
Legend	p. 338
A Prayer	p. 339
His End and His Beginning	p. 340
Brodie's Report (1970)	p. 343
Foreword	p. 345
The Interloper	p. 348
Unworthy	p. 352
The Story from Rosendo Juarez	p. 358
The Encounter	p. 364
Juan Murana	p. 370
The Elderly Lady	p. 375
The Duel	p. 381
The Other Duel	p. 386
Guayaquil	p. 390
The Gospel According to Mark	p. 397
Brodie's Report	p. 402
The Book of Sand (1975)	p. 409
The Other	p. 411
Ulrikke	p. 418
The Congress	p. 422
There Are More Things	p. 437
The Sect of the Thirty	p. 443
The Night of the Gifts	p. 446
The Mirror and the Mask	p. 451
"Undr"	p. 455
A Weary Man's Utopia	p. 460
The Bribe	p. 466
Avelino Arredondo	p. 472
The Disk	p. 477
The Book of Sand	p. 480
Afterword	p. 484
Shakespeare's Memory (1983)	p. 487
August 25, 1983	p. 489
Blue Tigers	p. 494
The Rose of Paracelsus	p. 504
Shakespeare's Memory	p. 508
A Note on the Translation	p. 517
Acknowledgments	p. 523
Notes to the Fictions	p. 525
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