Search Worlds Without End

Jorge Luis Borges has been called the greatest Spanish-language writer of our century. Now for the first time in English, all of Borges' dazzling fictions are gathered into a single volume, brilliantly translated by Andrew Hurley. From his 1935 debut with The Universal History of Iniquity, through his immensely influential collections Ficciones and The Aleph, these enigmatic, elaborate, imaginative inventions display Borges' talent for turning fiction on its head by playing with form and genre and toying with language. Together these incomparable works comprise the perfect one-volume compendium for all those who have long loved Borges, and a superb introduction to the master's work for those who have yet to discover this singular genius.

Table of Contents:

• A Universal History of Iniquity - (1972) - collection by Jorge Luís Borges (trans. of Historia universal de la infamia 1935)
• Fictions - (1962) - collection by Jorge Luís Borges (trans. of Ficciones 1944)
• The Aleph and Other Stories, 1933-1969 - (1970) - collection by Jorge Luís Borges (trans. of El Aleph 1949)
• The Maker - (1998) - collection by Jorge Luís Borges (trans. of El Hacedor 1960)
• In Praise of Darkness - (1974) - collection by Jorge Luís Borges (trans. of Elogio de la Sombra 1969)
• Brodie's Report - (1971) - collection by Jorge Luís Borges (trans. of El informe de Brodie 1970)
• The Book of Sand - (1977) - collection by Jorge Luís Borges (trans. of El libro de arena 1975)
• Shakespeare's Memory - (1983) - collection by Jorge Luís Borges (trans. of Veinticinco de Agosto de 1983 y otros cuentos)

The seventeen pieces in Ficciones demonstrate the whirlwind of Borges's genius and mirror the precision and potency of his intellect and inventiveness, his piercing irony, his skepticism, and his obsession with fantasy. Borges sends us on a journey into a compelling, bizarre, and profoundly resonant realm; we enter the fearful sphere of Pascal's abyss, the surreal and literal labyrinth of books, and the iconography of eternal return. To enter the worlds in Ficciones is to enter the mind of Jorge Luis Borges, wherein lies Heaven, Hell, and everything in between.

Part One: The Garden of Forking Paths

• Prologue
• Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius (1940)
• The Approach to Al-Mu'tasim (1936, not included in the 1941 edition)
• Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote (1939)
• The Circular Ruins (1940)
• The Lottery in Babylon (1941)
• An Examination of the Work of Herbert Quain (1941)
• The Library of Babel (1941)
• The Garden of Forking Paths (1941)

Part Two: Artifices

• Prologue
• Funes the Memorious (1942)
• The Form of the Sword (1942)
• Theme of the Traitor and the Hero (1944)
• Death and the Compass (1942)
• The Secret Miracle (1943)
• Three Versions of Judas (1944)
• The End (1953, 2nd edition only)
• The Sect of the Phoenix (1952, 2nd edition only)
• The South (1953, 2nd edition only)

Contains:

• Averroes' Search - (1964) - short story (trans. of La busca de Averroes 1947)
• Death and the Compass - (1954) - short story (trans. of La muerte y la brújula 1942)
• Deutsches Requiem - (1958) - short fiction (trans. of Deutsches Réquiem 1946)
• Emma Zunz - (1964) - short story (trans. of Emma Zunz 1948)
• Funes the Memorious - short story (trans. of Funes el memorioso 1942)
• Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote - short story (trans. of Pierre Menard, autor del Quijote 1939)
• Story of the Warrior and the Captive - (1964) - short story (trans. of Historia del guerrero y la cautiva 1949)
• The Babylon Lottery - (1959) - short story (trans. of La lotería en Babilonia 1941)
• The Circular Ruins - (1940) - short story (trans. of Las ruinas circulares)
• The Form of the Sword - short fiction (trans. of La forma de la espada 1942)
• The Garden of Forking Paths - (1948) - short story (trans. of El Jardín de senderos que se bifurcan 1941)
• The God's Script - (1964) - short story (trans. of La escritura del Dios 1949)
• The House of Asterion - (1964) - short story (trans. of La casa de Asterión 1947)
• The Immortal - (1966) - short story (trans. of El inmortal 1949)
• The Library of Babel - short story (trans. of La biblioteca de Babel 1941)
• The Secret Miracle - (1956) - short story (trans. of El milagro secreto 1942)
• The Sect of the Phoenix - short story (trans. of La secta del Fénix 1952)
• The Theologians - (1964) - short story (trans. of Los teólogos 1947)
• The Waiting - (1959) - short story (trans. of La Espera 1950)
• The Zahir - (1950) - short story (trans. of El Zahir 1947)
• Theme of the Traitor and Hero - short fiction (trans. of Tema del traidor y del héro 1944)
• Three Versions of Judas - short story (trans. of Tres versiones de Judas 1944)
• Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius - (1961) - short story (trans. of Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius 1940)
• Preface (Labyrinths) - essay by André Maurois
• Introduction (Labyrinths) - essay by J. E. Irby

Full of philosophical puzzles and supernatural surprises, these stories contain some of Borges's most fully realized human characters. With uncanny insight he takes us inside the minds of an unrepentant Nazi, an imprisoned Mayan priest, fanatical Christian theologians, a woman plotting vengeance on her father's "killer," and a man awaiting his assassin in a Buenos Aires guest house. This volume also contains the hauntingly brief vignettes about literary imagination and personal identity collected in The Maker, which Borges wrote as failing eyesight and public fame began to undermine his sense of self.

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The Book of Fantasy is the second English translation of Antología de la Literatura Fantástica, an anthology of appromixately 81 fantastic short stories, fragments, excerpts, and poems edited by Jorge Luis Borges, Adolfo Bioy Casares, and Silvina Ocampo. It was first published in Argentina in 1940, and revised in 1965 and 1976. Anthony Kerrigan previously translated the similar work Cuentos Breves y Extraordinarios as Extraordinary Tales, published by Herder & Herder in 1971. The 1988 Viking Penguin edition for English-speaking countries includes a foreword by Ursula K. Le Guin.

The idea and seed for this volume came into being one "night in 1937 in Buenos Aires, when Jorge Luis Borges, Adolfo Bioy Casares, and Silvina Ocampo fell to talking - so Casares tells us - 'about fantastic literature. ..simply a compilation of stories from fantastic literature which seemed to us to be the best.'"

Table of Contents:

• Introduction (The Book of Fantasy) - essay by Ursula K. Le Guin
• Sennin - (1976) - shortstory by Ryunosuke Akutagawa (trans. of ?? 1916)
• A Woman Alone with Her Soul - (1912) - shortstory by Thomas Bailey Aldrich
• Ben-Tobith - (1976) - shortstory by Leonid Andreyev (trans. of ???-????? 1905)
• The Phantom Basket - (1696) - shortfiction by John Aubrey
• The Drowned Giant - (1964) - shortstory by J. G. Ballard
• Enoch Soames - (1916) - novelette by Max Beerbohm
• The Tail of the Sphinx - (1893) - shortstory by Ambrose Bierce
• The Squid in Its Own Ink - (1976) - shortstory by Adolfo Bioy Casares (trans. of El calamar opta por su tinta 1962)
• Guilty Eyes - (1976) - shortstory by Ah'med Ech Chiruani
• Anything You Want! ... - shortfiction by Léon Bloy (trans. of Tout ce que tu voudras !... 1894)
• Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius - (1961) - shortstory by Jorge Luís Borges (trans. of Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius 1940)
• Odin - (1951) - shortfiction by Jorge Luís Borges and Delia Ingenieros
• The Golden Kite, the Silver Wind - (1953) - shortstory by Ray Bradbury
• The Man Who Collected the First of September 1973 - (1973) - shortstory by Tor Åge Bringsvaerd (trans. of Mannen som samlet på første September 1972)
• The Careless Rabbi - (1956) - shortfiction by Martin Buber
• The Tale and the Poet - shortfiction by Sir Richard Francis Burton
• Fate is a Fool - shortfiction by Pilar de Lusarreta and Arturo Cancela (trans. of El Destino es chambón 1920)
• An Actual Authentic Ghost - (1834) - shortfiction by Thomas Carlyle
• The Red King's Dream - (1871) - shortfiction by Lewis Carroll
• The Tree of Pride - (1922) - shortfiction by G. K. Chesterton
• The Dream of the Butterfly - (1926) - shortfiction by Chuang Tzu
• The Tower of Babel - (1922) - shortfiction by G. K. Chesterton
• House Taken Over - (1976) - shortstory by Julio Cortázar (trans. of Casa tomada 1946)
• The Look of Death - (1923) - shortfiction by Jean Cocteau
• Being Dust - (1961) - shortfiction by Santiago Dabove
• A Parable of Gluttony - (1931) - shortfiction by Alexandra David-Neel
• The Persecution of the Master - (1931) - shortfiction by Alexandra David-Neel
• The Idle City - (1909) - shortstory by Lord Dunsany
• Tantalia - (1984) - shortfiction by Macedonio Fernández
• Eternal Life - (1913) - shortfiction by J. G. Frazer
• A Secure Home - shortfiction by Elena Garro
• The Man Who Did Not Believe in Miracles - (1915) - shortfiction by Herbert A. Giles
• Earth's Holocaust - (1844) - shortstory by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Ending for a Ghost Story - shortfiction by I. A. Ireland
• The Monkey's Paw - (1902) - shortstory by W. W. Jacobs
• What is a Ghost? - (1921) - shortfiction by James Joyce
• May Goulding - (1921) - shortfiction by James Joyce
• The Wizard Passed Over - (1970) - shortfiction by Don Juan Manuel
• Josephine the Singer, or the Mouse Folk - (1948) - shortstory by Franz Kafka (trans. of Josefine, die Sängerin oder Das Volk der Mäuse 1924)
• Before the Law - (1948) - shortstory by Franz Kafka (trans. of Vor dem Gesetz 1915)
• The Return of Imray - (1891) - shortstory by Rudyard Kipling
• The Horses of Abdera - shortfiction by Leopoldo Lugones (trans. of Los caballos de Abdera 1906)
• The Ceremony - (1897) - shortstory by Arthur Machen
• The Riddle - (1903) - shortfiction by Walter de la Mare
• Who Knows? - (1935) - shortstory by Guy de Maupassant (trans. of Qui sait ? 1890)
• The Cat - shortfiction by H. A. Murena
• The Shadow of the Players - shortfiction by Edwin Morgan
• The Story of the Foxes - shortfiction by Niu Chiao
• The Atonement - shortfiction by Silvina Ocampo (trans. of La expiación 1961)
• The Man Who Belonged to Me - (1906) - shortfiction by Giovanni Papini
• Rani - shortfiction by Carlos Peralta
• The Blind Spot - (1945) - shortfiction by Barry Perowne
• The Wolf - (1965) - shortfiction by Petronius
• The Bust - shortfiction by Manuel Peyrou
• The Cask of Amontillado - [Fortunado] - (1846) - shortstory by Edgar Allan Poe
• The Tiger of Chao-Ch'Eng - (1880) - shortfiction by Pu Songling (trans. of ??? 1766)
• How We Arrived at the Island of Tools - [Gargantua et Pantagruel] - shortfiction by François Rabelais
• The Music on the Hill - (1911) - shortstory by Saki
• Where Their Fire Is Not Quenched - (1922) - novelette by May Sinclair
• The Cloth Which Weaves Itself - (1900) - shortfiction by W. W. Skeat
• A Theologian in Death - (1971) - essay by Emanuel Swedenborg
• Universal History - (1937) - shortfiction by Olaf Stapledon
• The Encounter - shortfiction by unknown
• The Three Hermits - (1980) - shortstory by Leo Tolstoy (trans. of ??? ?????? 1886)
• Macario - (1966) - shortfiction by B. Traven
• The Infinite Dream of Pao-Yu - shortfiction by Tsao Hsueh-Chin
• The Mirror to Wind-and-Moon - shortfiction by Tsao Hsueh-Chin
• The Desire To Be a Man - shortfiction by Villiers de l'Isle-Adam (trans. of Le désir d'être un homme 1882)
• Memnon, or Human Wisdom - (1747) - shortstory by Voltaire (trans. of Memnon: Histoire Orientale)
• The Man Who Liked Dickens - (1933) - shortstory by Evelyn Waugh
• Pomegranate Seed - (1931) - novelette by Edith Wharton
• Lukundoo - (1907) - shortstory by Edward Lucas White
• The Donguys - shortfiction by Juan Rodolfo Wilcock
• Lord Arthur Savile's Crime - (1887) - novelette by Oscar Wilde
• The Sorcerer of the White Lotus Lodge - (1924) - shortfiction by Richard Wilhelm (1873-1930)
• Saved by the Book - (1928) - shortfiction by G. Willoughby-Meade
• The Celestial Stag - (1928) - shortfiction by G. Willoughby-Meade
• The Reanimated Englishman - shortfiction by Mary Shelley (variant of Roger Dodsworth: The Reanimated Englishman 1863)
• The Sentence - shortfiction by Wu Ch'Eng En
• The Sorcerers - (1893) - shortfiction by William Butler Yeats
• Fragment - (1844) - shortfiction by José Zorrilla

Jorge Luis Borges has been called the greatest Spanish-language writer of the twentieth century. Now Borges's remarkable last major story collection, The Book of Sand, is paired with a handful of writings from the very end of his life. Brilliantly translated, these stories combine a direct and at times almost colloquial style coupled with Borges's signature fantastic inventiveness. Containing such marvelous tales as "The Congress," "Undr," "The Mirror and the Mask," and "The Rose of Paracelsus," this edition showcases Borges's depth of vision and superb image-conjuring power.

Table of Contents:

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

Nebula Award nominated short story. The original Spanish title is Utopía de un hombre que está cansado. Some sources list the English title as A Weary Man's Utopia. Given the 1976 nomination there must be an earlier publication in English but the collection The Book of Sand (1977 in English) is the earliest publication mentioned.