Collected Fictions
Jorge Luis Borges - Author
Andrew Hurley - Translator
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Read by George Guidall "An unparalleled treasury of marvels...Along with a tiny cohort of peers, and seers (Kafka and Joyce come to mind), Borges is more than a stunning storyteller and a brilliant stylist; he's a mirror who reflects the spirit of his time." -Melvin Jules Bukiet, Chicago Tribune 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)
Artifices (1944)
The Aleph (1949)
The Maker (1960)
Museum
In Praise of Darkness (1969)
Brodie's Report (1970)
The Book of Sand (1975)
Shakespeare's Memory (1983)
A Note on the Translation “A marvelous new collection of stories by one of the most remarkable writers of our century.” —Richard Bernstein, The New York Times “The major work of probably the most influential Latin American writer of the century.” —Michael Dirda, The Washington Post Book World “An unparalleled treasury of marvels . . . Along with a tiny cohort of peers, and seers (Kafka and Joyce come to mind), Borges is more than a stunning storyteller and a brilliant stylist; he’s a mirror who reflects the spirit of his time.” —Melvin Jules Bukiet, Chicago Tribune “An event worth of celebration . . . Hurley deserves our enthusiastic praise for this monumental piece of work.” —William Hjortsberg, San Francisco Chronicle “Borges is the most important Spanish-language writer since Cervantes. . . . To have denied him the Nobel Prize is as bad as the case of Joyce, Proust, and Kafka.” —Mario Vargas Llosa |
