Collected Fictions Author:Jorge Luis Borges, Andrew Hurley (Translator) Jorge Luis Borges has been called the greatest Spanish-language writer of our century. Now for the first time in English, all of Borges' dazzling fictions are gathered into a single volume, brilliantly translated by Andrew Hurley. From his 1935 debut with The Universal History of Iniquity, through his immensely influential collections... more »Ficciones and The Aleph, these enigmatic, elaborate, imaginative inventions display Borges' talent for turning fiction on its head by playing with form and genre and toying with language. Together these incomparable works comprise the perfect one-volume compendium for all those who have long loved Borges, and a superb introduction to the master's work for those who have yet to discover this singular genius.
A universal history of iniquity. The cruel redeemer Lazarus Morell --
The improbable impostor Tom Castro --
The Widow Ching : pirate --
Monk Eastman, purveyor of iniquities --
The disinterested killer Bill Harrigan --
The uncivil teacher of court etiquette Kôtsuké no Suké --
Hakim, the masked dyer of Merv --
Man on pink corner --
Et cetera. Fictions. The garden of forking paths. Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis tertius --
The approach to Al-Mu'tasim --
Pierre Menard, author of the Quixote --
The circular ruins --
The lottery in Babylon --
A survey of the works of Herbert Quain --
The library of Babel --
The garden of forking paths --
Artifices. Funes, his memory --
The shape of the sword --
The theme of the traitor and the hero --
Death and the compass --
The secret miracle --
Three versions of Judas --
The end --
The cult of the phoenix --
The south. The aleph. The immortal --
The dead man --
The theologians --
Story of the warrior and the captive maiden --
A biography of Tadeo Isidoro Cruz (1829-1874) --
Emma Zunz --
The house of Asterion --
The other death --
Deutsches requiem --
Averroës' search --
The zahir --
The writing of the god --
Ibn-Hakam al-Bokhari, murdered in his labyrinth --
The two kings and the two labyrinths --
The wait --
The man on the threshold --
The aleph. The maker. The maker --
Dreamtigers --
A dialog about a dialog --
Toenails --
Covered mirrors --
Argumentum ornithologicum --
The captive --
The mountebank --
Delia Elena San Marco --
A dialog between dead men --
The plot --
A problem --
The yellow rose --
The witness --
Martín Fierro --
Mutations --
Parable of Cervantes and the Quixote --
Paradiso, XXXI, 108 --
Parable of the palace --
Everything and nothing --
Ragnarök --
Inferno, I, 32 --
Borges and I --
Museum. On exactitude in science --
In memoriam, J.F.K. In praise of darkness. The ethnographer --
Pedro Salvadores --
Legend --
A prayer --
His end and his beginning. Brodie's report. The interloper --
Unworthy --
The story from Rosendo Juárez --
The encounter --
Juan Muraña --
The elderly lady --
The duel --
The other duel --
Guayaquil --
The gospel according to Mark --
Brodie's report. The book of sand. The other --
Ulrikke --
The congress --
There are more things --
The sect of the thirty --
The night of the gifts --
The mirror and the mask --
"Undr" --
A weary man's utopia --
The bribe --
Avelino Arredondo --
The disk --
The book of sand. Shakespeare's memory. August 25, 1983 --