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Published
New York : Viking 1998.
Language
English
Spanish
Main Author
Jorge Luis Borges, 1899-1986 (-)
Other Authors
Andrew Hurley (-)
Physical Description
ix, 565 p.
ISBN
9780140286809
9780670849703
  • A Universal History of Iniquity (1935)
  • 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
  • The Uncivil Teacher of Court Etiquette Kotsuke no Suke
  • Hakim, the Masked Dyer of Merv
  • Man on Pink Corner
  • Et cetera
  • Index of Sources
  • Fictions (1944)
  • The Garden of Forking Paths (1941)
  • Foreword
  • Tlon, 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 (1944)
  • 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 (1949)
  • 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
  • Averroes' 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
  • Afterword
  • The Maker (1960)
  • 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
  • Martin Fierro
  • Mutations
  • Parable of Cervantes and the Quixote
  • Paradiso, XXXI, 108
  • Parable of the Palace
  • Everything and Nothing
  • Ragnarok
  • Inferno, I, 32
  • Borges and I
  • Museum
  • On Exactitude in Science
  • In Memoriam, J.F.K.
  • Afterword
  • In Praise of Darkness (1969)
  • Foreword
  • The Ethnographer
  • Pedro Salvadores
  • Legend
  • A Prayer
  • His End and His Beginning
  • Brodie's Report (1970)
  • Foreword
  • The Interloper
  • Unworthy
  • The Story from Rosendo Juarez
  • The Encounter
  • Juan Murana
  • The Elderly Lady
  • The Duel
  • The Other Duel
  • Guayaquil
  • The Gospel According to Mark
  • Brodie's Report
  • The Book of Sand (1975)
  • 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 (1983)
  • August 25, 1983
  • Blue Tigers
  • The Rose of Paracelsus
  • Shakespeare's Memory
  • A Note on the Translation
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes to the Fictions
Review by Publisher's Weekly Review

Undeniably one of the most influential writers to emerge in this century from Latin America or anywhere else, Borges (1899-1986) is best known for his short stories, all of which appear here for the first time in one volume, translated and annotated by University of Puerto Rico professor Hurley. Many of the stories return to the same set of images and themes that mark Borges's best known work: the code of ethics embraced by gauchos, knifefighters and outlaws; labyrinths; confrontations with one's doppelgänger; and discoveries of artifacts from other worlds (an encyclopedia of a mysterious region in Iraq; a strange disc that has only one side and that gives a king his power; a menacing book that infinitely multiplies its own pages; fragmentary manuscripts that narrate otherworldly accounts of lands of the immortals). Less familiar are episodes that narrate the violent, sordid careers of pirates and outlaws like Billy the Kid (particularly in the early collection A Universal History of Iniquity) or attempts to dramatize the consciousness of Shakespeare or Homer. Elusive, erudite, melancholic, Borges's fiction will intrigue the general reader as well as the scholar. This is the first in a series of three new translations (including the Collected Poems and Collected Nonfictions, all timed to coincide with the centennial of the author's birth), which will offer an alternative to the extensive but very controversial collaborations between Borges and Norman Thomas di Giovanni. First serial rights to the New Yorker, the New York Review of Books and Grand Street. (Sept.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved

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Review by Library Journal Review

Starred Review. This retrospective marks the first time that all the narratives (stretching over 50 years) of this canonical writer have been updated and compiled in one volume in English. (c) Copyright 2014. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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Review by Kirkus Book Review

Mirrors, labyrinths, libraries, gardens, doppelgängers, knife fights, and tigers recur memorably in these witty, colorful talesŽwhich have exerted an incalculable influence on the past half-century's fiction. For this first installment in a projected three-volume series of BorgesŽs work (to be followed by poetry and nonfiction collections), translator-editor Hurley has included the contents of seven previously published books (notably, the seminal Ficciones, 1944), plus previously untranslated work from the 1980s (of which Shakespeare's Memory most successfully recapitulates Borges's urbane bridging of temporal and imaginary ``worlds''). Gloriously ruminative and bookish, BorgesŽs teasing fictions skillfully absorb the influences of his native Argentina's indigenous folktales, various world mythologies, Anglo-Saxon verse, Icelandic saga, Poe, Cervantes, and Chesterton, along with numerous other literary touchstones. Among the best: the arcane pseudohistory of an imaginary planet (``Tlon, Ugbar, Orbus Tertius''); a memorable realization of Borges's credo that all ``new'' stories are inevitably old ones retold (``Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote''); a clever lampooning of the author's own polymathism (``Funes the Memorious''); and a supremely ingenious detective story (``Death and the Compass''). Authoritative testimony to the virtues of eclecticism and cosmopolitanism, and a matchless gift to readers that belongs, as the old saying goes, in every library. (First serial to The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, and Grand Street)

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Contents A UNIVERSAL HISTORY OF INIQUITY (1935)   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 The Uncivil Teacher of Court Etiquette Kôtsuké no Suké Hakim, the Masked Dyer of Merv Man on Pink Corner Et cetera   Index of Sources   FICTIONS (1944)   THE GARDEN OF FORKING PATHS (1941)   Foreword   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 (1944)   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 (1949)   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   Afterword   THE MAKER (1960)   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 Martin 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.   Afterword   IN PRAISE OF DARKNESS (1969)   Foreword   The Ethnographer Pedro Salvadores Legend A Prayer His End and His Beginning   BRODIE'S REPORT (1970)   Foreword   The Interloper Unworthy The Story from Rosendo Juarez The Encounter Juan Murafta The Elderly Lady The Duel The Other Duel Guayaquil The Gospel According to Mark Brodie's Report   THE BOOK OF SAND (1975)   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 (1983) August 25, 1983 Blue Tigers The Rose of Paracelsus Shakespeare's Memory   A Note on the Translation Acknowledgments Notes to the Fictions Excerpted from Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges All rights reserved by the original copyright owners. Excerpts are provided for display purposes only and may not be reproduced, reprinted or distributed without the written permission of the publisher.