Collected Fictions
by Borges, Jorge Luis; Hurley, Andrew (Translator)Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1999-09-01
Publisher(s): Penguin (Non-Classics)
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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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