Collected Fictions

Contents

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 (1941)

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

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