Jorge Luis Borges

Argentinian writer (Buenos Aires August 24, 1899 - Geneva June 14, 1986), mainly known for his short stories, he also wrote poetry and a considerable amount of literary criticism. Some consider him one of the founders of the Latin-American school of [Magic Realism]?. His work is profoundly learned (and occasionally deliberately misleading) and is often concerned with the nature of infinity?, mirrors, labyrinths and identity.

Collections

• Six Problems for Don Isidro (1942) (writing as H Bustos Domecq)
• A Universal History of Infamy (1954)
• Ficciones (1956)
• A Personal Anthology (1961)
• Dreamtigers (1964)
• Labyrinths (1964)
• Chronicles of Bustos Domecq (1967) (with Adolfo Bioy-Casares)
• Extraordinary Tales (1967) (with Adolfo Bioy-Casares)
• Doctor Brodie's Report (1970)
• The Book of Sand (1975)
• The Aleph and Other Stories 1933-1969 (1978)
• Seven Nights (1988)
• Obras Completas (1989)
• Everything and Nothing (1997)
• Collected Fictions (1998)

Short Stories

• "The Chamber of Statues" (1933)
• "The Dread Redeemer Lazarus Morell" (1933)
• "The Insulting Master of Etiquette Kotsuke no Suke" (1933)
• "The Mirror of Ink" (1933)
• "Monk Eastman, Purveyor of Iniquities" (1933)
• "Streetcorner Man" (1933)
• "Tom Castro, the Implausible Imposter" (1933)
• "The Widow Ching, Lady Pirate" (1933)
• "The Wizard Postponed" (1933)
• "The Masked Dyer, Hakim of Merv" (1934)
• "Tale of the Two Dreamers" (1934)
• "A Theologian in Death" (1934)
• "The Disinterested Killer Bill Harrigan" (1935)
• "[The Library of Babel]?" (1941)
• "[Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius]?" (1941)
• "The Aleph" (1945)
• "A Double for Mohammed" (1946)
• "The Generous Enemy" (1946)
• "Of Exactitude in Science" (1946)
• "Funes the Memorious" (1962)
• "The Immortal" (1962)
• "The Lottery in Babylon" (1962)
• "The Intruder" (1966)
• "Death and the Compass" (1968)
• "The Meeting" (1969)
• "Rosendo's Tale" (1969)
• "Doctor Brodie's Report" (1970)
• "The Duel" (1970)
• "The Elder Lady" (1970)
• "The End of the Duel" (1970)
• "The Gospel According to Mark" (1970)
• "Guayaquil" (1970)
• "Juan Murana" (1970)
• "The Unworthy Friend" (1970)
• "Utopia of a Tired Man" (1975) (Nebula award nominee)
• "August 25, 1983" (1982)
• "The Rose of Paracelsus" (1998)
• "Avelino Arredondo"
• "The Book of Sand"
• "The Bribe"
• "The Circular Ruins"
• "The Congress"
• "The Disk"
• "The Mirror and the Mask"
• "The Night of the Gifts"
• "Odin" (with Delia Ingenieros)
• "The Other"
• "The Sect of the Thirty"
• "There Are More Things"
• "Ulrike"
• "Undr"
• "The Zahir"

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