Borges Restored (Author's Preferred Translations) by Borges, Jorge Luis -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Start Table of Contents Editor's Introduction The Aleph & Other Stories

Preface The Aleph Streetcorner Man The Approach to al-Mu'tasim The Circular Ruins Death and the Compass The Life of Tadeo Isidoro Cruz (1829-1874) The Two Kings and Their Two Labyrinths The Dead Man The Other Death Ibn Hakkan al-Bokhari, Dead in His Labyrinth The Man on the Threshold The Challenge The Captive Borges and Myself The Maker The Immortals The Meeting Pedro Salvadores Rosendo's Tale An Autobiographical Essay Commentaries

A Universal History of Infamy

Preface to the 1954 Edition Preface to the First Edition The Dread Redeemer Lazarus Morell Tom Castro, the Implausible Impostor The Widow Ching, Lady Pirate Monk Eastman, Purveyor of Iniquities The Disinterested Killer Bill Harrigan The Insulting Master of Etiquette Kôtsuké no Suké The Masked Dyer, Hakim of Merv

Etcetera

A Theologian In Death The Chamber of Statues Tale of the Two Dreamers The Wizard Postponed The Mirror of Ink A Double for Mohammed The Generous Enemy Of Exactitude in Science

The Book of Sand

Author's Note The Other Ulrike The Congress There Are More Things The Sect of the Thirty The Night of the Gifts The Mirror and the Mask Undr Utopia of a Tired Man The Bribe Avelino Arredondo The Disk The Book of Sand Afterword

Doctor Brodie's Report

Foreword Preface to the First Edition The Gospel According to Mark The Unworthy Friend The Duel The End of the Duel The Intruder Juan Muraña The Elder Lady Guayaquil Doctor Brodie's Report Afterword

The Garden of Branching Paths

Prologue Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius Pierre Menard, the Author of Don Quixote The Lottery In Babylon A Glimpse Into the Work of Herbert Quain The Library of Babel The Garden of Branching Paths Paracelsus and the Rose

In Praise of Darkness

Preface John I:14 Heraclitus Cambridge The Anthropologist Elsa New England 1967 James Joyce The Unending Gift Episode of the Enemy The Labyrinth Labyrinth May 20,1928 Ricardo Güiraldes To A Certain Ghost, 1940 Plain Things To Israel Israel June, 1968 The Keeper Of The Books The Gauchos Acevedo Milonga Of Calandria Invocation To Joyce Israel 1969 “Ritter, Tod, Und Teufel” (I) “Ritter, Tod, Und Teufel” (II) Buenos Aires From An Apocryphal Gospel Legend A Prayer His End And His Beginning A Reader In Praise Of Darkness

Personal Anthology

The Plot The South A Page to Commemorate Colonel Suárez, Victor at Junín Matthew 25:30 Funes, The Memorious A New Refutation of Time Limits The Golem Inferno I, 32 The Other Tiger A Yellow Rose Baltasar Gracián To An Old Poet Parable of the Palace The Wall and the Books The Enigma of Edward Fitzgerald Ariosto and the Arabs Averroës’ Search A Soldier of Urbina Everything and Nothing From Someone To No One Forms of a Legend The Cyclical Night Allusion to a Ghost of the Eighteen-Nineties The Tango The End Story of the Warrior and the Captive Paradiso XXXI, 108 Luke 23 The Witness The Modesty of History The Secret Miracle Conjectural Poem The Gifts The Moon The Art of Poetry Poem Written in a Copy of Beowulf Three Versions of Judas The Form of the Sword Theme of the Traitor and Hero The Sect of the Phoenix

Six Problems for Don Isidro

The Twelve Figures of the World The Nights of Goliadkin The God of the Bulls Free Will and the Commendatore Tadeo Limardo's Victim Tai An's Long Search H. Bustos Domecq

Chronicles of Bustos Domecq

Homage to César Paladión An Evening with Ramón Bonavena In Search of the Absolute Naturalism Revived A List and Analysis of the Sundry Books of F. J. C. Loomis An Abstract Art The Brotherhood Movement On Universal Theater The Flowering of an Art Gradus ad Parnassum The Selective Eye What's Missing Hurts Not The Multifaceted Vilaseco Tafas, a Talented Brush The Sartorial Revolution (I) The Sartorial Revolution (II) A Brand-New Approach Esse est Percipi The Idlers

Evaristo Carriego

Preface to the Second Edition Preface to the First Edition I. Palermo, Buenos Aires II. A Life of Evaristo Carriego III. Heretic Masses IV. Song of the Neighborhood V. Possible Summary VI. Complementary Pages VII. Inscriptions on Wagons VIII. Stories of Horsemen IX. The Dagger X. Foreword of an Edition to the Complete Poems of Evaristo Carriego XI. A History of the Tango XII. Two Letters Appendices Carriego and His Awareness of the City's Outskirts Foreword to an Edition of the Selected Poems of Evaristo Carriego

Other Inquisitions

The Fearful Sphere of Pascal Time and J. W. Dunne The Creation and P. H. Gosse Dr. Américo Castro Is Alarmed A Note on Carriego Our Poor Individualism Quevedo Partial Magic in the Quixote Nathaniel Hawthorne Note on Walt Whitman Valéry as Symbol Coleridge's Flower Coleridge's Dream On Oscar Wilde On Chesterton The First Wells The Biathanatos Pascal The Meeting in a Dream John Wilkins’ Analytical Language Kafka and his Precursors Avatars of the Tortoise On the Cult of Books The Nightingale of Keats The Mirror of the Enigmas Two Books A Comment on August 23, 1944 On William Beckford's Vathek About The Purple Land From Allegories to Novels The Innocence of Layamon For Bernard Shaw Epilogue The Simurgh and the Eagle A History of the Echoes of a Name Narrative Art and Magic The Total Library A Fragment on Joyce The Nothingness of Personality I, a Jew A History of Eternity A Defense of Bouvard and Pécuchet Flaubert and his Exemplary Destiny Book and Movie Criticism Absalom, Absalom! The Unvanquished The Tale of Genji The Literary Life Mathematics and the Imagination Rudyard Kipling: A Study in Literature and Political Ideas Monkey After Death The Invention of Morel Bartleby the Scrivener The Abasement of the Northmores On Heroes, Hero-worship and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle Representative Men The Martian Chronicles The Cinematograph, the Biograph Films Street Scene King Kong The Informer Two Films The Petrified Forest Wells, the Visionary Two Films II An Overwhelming Film Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Transformed Two Films III On Dubbing

Borges on Writing

Edited by Norman Thomas di Giovanni, Daniel Halpern,& Frank MacShane Introduction Fiction Poetry Translation The Writer's Apprenticeship

The Book of Imaginary Beings

Preface Preface to the 1967 Edition Preface to the 1957 Edition A Bao A Qu Abtu and Anet The Amphisbaena An Animal Imagined by Kafka An Animal Imagined by C. S. Lewis The Animal Imagined by Poe Animals in the Form of Spheres Antelopes with Six Legs The Ass with Three Legs Bahamut Baldanders The Banshee The Barometz The Basilisk Behemoth The Brownies Burak The Carbuncle The Catoblepas The Celestial Stag The Centaur Cerberus The Cheshire Cat and the Kilkenny Cats The Chimera The Chinese Dragon The Chinese Fox The Chinese Phoenix Chronos or Hercules A Creature Imagined by C. S. Lewis The Crocotta and the Leucrocotta A Crossbreed The Double The Eastern Dragon The Eater of the Dead The Eight-Forked Serpent The Elephant That Foretold the Birth of the Buddha The Eloi and the Morlocks The Elves An Experimental Account of What Was Known, Seen, and Met by Mrs. Jane Lead in London in 1694 The Fairies Fastitocalon Fauna of Chile Fauna of China Fauna of Mirrors Fauna of the United States Garuda The Gnomes The Golem The Griffon Haniel, Kafziel, Azriel, and Aniel Haokah the Thunder God Harpies The Heavenly Cock The Hippogriff Hochigan Humbaba The Hundred-Heads The Hydra of Lerna Ichthyocentaurs Jewish Demons The Jinn The Kami A King of Fire and His Steed The Kraken Kujata The Lamed Wufniks The Lamias Laudatores Temporis Acti The Lemures The Leveller Lilith The Lunar Hare The Mandrake The Manticore The Mermecolion The Minotaur The Monkey of the Inkpot The Monster Acheron The Mother of Tortoises The Nagas The Nasnas The Norns The Nymphs The Odradek An Offspring of Leviathan One-Eyed Beings The Panther The Pelican The Peryton The Phoenix The Pygmies The Rain Bird The Remora The Rukh The Salamander The Satyrs Scylla The Sea Horse The Shaggy Beast of La Ferté-Bernard The Simurgh Sirens The Sow Harnessed with Chains and other Argentine Fauna The Sphinx The Squonk Swedenborg's Angels Swedenborg's Devils The Sylphs Talos The T'ao T'ieh Thermal Beings The Tigers of Annam The Trolls Two Metaphysical Beings The Unicorn The Unicorn of China The Uroboros The Valkyries The Western Dragon Youwarkee The Zaratan

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