TY  - BOOK
AU  - Borges,Jorge Luis
AU  - Hurley,Andrew
TI  - Collected fictions
SN  - 0670849707
AV  - PQ7797.B635 A24 1998
U1  - 863 21
PY  - 1998///
CY  - New York, N.Y., U.S.A.
PB  - Viking
KW  - Borges, Jorge Luis,
KW  - Short stories, Argentine
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Short stories, Spanish
KW  - Translations into English
KW  - Short stories
KW  - fast
KW  - Translations
KW  - gsafd
KW  - lcgft
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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