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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 (1944). 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 -- 'Martín 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 Juárez -- The encounter -- Juan Muraña -- 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.
The works of an Argentinian writer who took the detective story and turned it into metaphysics. They range from the 1935 'A Universal History of Iniquity', a series of biographies of reprehensible evildoers, to the surrealistic 'August 25, 1983' in which Borges meets himself as an old man.

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