Collected fictions / Jorge Luis Borges ; translated by Andrew Hurley.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Spanish Publication details: New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Viking, 1998.Description: 565 pages ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0670849707
  • 9780670849703
  • 9780140286809
  • 0140286802
Uniform titles:
  • Short stories. English
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Online version:: Collected fictions.DDC classification:
  • 863 21
LOC classification:
  • PQ7797.B635 A24 1998
Contents:
A universal history of iniquity. Preface to the first edition -- Preface to the 1954 edition -- The cruel redeemer Lazarus Morell -- The improbable impostor Tom Castro -- The Widow Ching : pirate -- Monk Eastman, purveyor of iniquities -- The disinterested killer Bill Harrigan -- Hakim, the masked dyer of Merv -- Man on pink corner -- Et cetera -- Index of sources --
Fictions. The garden of forking paths. Foreword -- 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. Foreword -- 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 -- 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 -- Afterword --
The maker. Foreword: for Leopoldo Lugones -- 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 -- Mutations -- Parable of Cervantes and the Quixote -- Paradiso, XXXI, 108 -- Parable of the palace -- Everything and nothing -- Inferno, I, 32 -- Borges and I -- Museum. On exactitude in science -- In memoriam, J.F.K. -- Afterword --
In praise of darkness. Foreword -- The ethnographer -- Pedro Salvadores -- Legend -- A prayer -- His end and his beginning --
Brodie's report. Foreword -- The interloper -- Unworthy -- The encounter -- 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 -- Afterword --
Shakespeare's memory. August 25, 1983 -- Blue tigers -- The rose of Paracelsus -- Shakespeare's memory -- A note on the translation -- Acknowledgments -- Notes to the fictions.
Summary: The works of an Argentinian writer who took the detective story and turned it into metaphysics. They range from the 1935 A Universal History of Iniquity, a series of biographies of reprehensible evildoers, to the surrealistic August 25, 1983 in which Borges meets himself as an old man.
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Includes bibliographical references.

A universal history of iniquity. Preface to the first edition -- Preface to the 1954 edition -- The cruel redeemer Lazarus Morell -- The improbable impostor Tom Castro -- The Widow Ching : pirate -- Monk Eastman, purveyor of iniquities -- The disinterested killer Bill Harrigan -- Hakim, the masked dyer of Merv -- Man on pink corner -- Et cetera -- Index of sources --

Fictions. The garden of forking paths. Foreword -- 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. Foreword -- 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 -- 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 -- Afterword --

The maker. Foreword: for Leopoldo Lugones -- 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 -- Mutations -- Parable of Cervantes and the Quixote -- Paradiso, XXXI, 108 -- Parable of the palace -- Everything and nothing -- Inferno, I, 32 -- Borges and I -- Museum. On exactitude in science -- In memoriam, J.F.K. -- Afterword --

In praise of darkness. Foreword -- The ethnographer -- Pedro Salvadores -- Legend -- A prayer -- His end and his beginning --

Brodie's report. Foreword -- The interloper -- Unworthy -- The encounter -- 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 -- Afterword --

Shakespeare's memory. August 25, 1983 -- Blue tigers -- The rose of Paracelsus -- Shakespeare's memory -- A note on the translation -- Acknowledgments -- Notes to the fictions.

The works of an Argentinian writer who took the detective story and turned it into metaphysics. They range from the 1935 A Universal History of Iniquity, a series of biographies of reprehensible evildoers, to the surrealistic August 25, 1983 in which Borges meets himself as an old man.

Translated from the Spanish.

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