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by  Jorge Luis Borges

FICCIONES
Jorge Luis Borges

Translated by
Andrew Hurley

ALLEN LANE
THE PENGUIN PRESS
Published by the Penguin Group
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 ---
Kôtsukéno Suké
Hakim, the Masked Dyer of Merv
Man on Pink Corner
Etcetera
Index of Sources

FICTIONS (1944)

THE GARDEN OF FORKING PATHS (1941)
Foreword
Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius
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
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, 1, 3
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

A Universal History of Iniquity (1935)

I inscribe this book to S.D. — English,
innumerable, and an Angel.
Also: I offer her that kernel of myself that I
have saved, somehow— the central heart that
deals not in words, traffics not with dreams,
and is untouched by time, by joy, by
adversities.

Preface to the First Edition
The exercises in narrative prose that
constitute this book were performed from 1933
to 1934. They are derived, I think, from my re-
readings of Stevenson and Chesterton, from the
first films of von Sternberg, and perhaps from a
particular biography of the Argentine poet
Evaristo Carriego. *Certain techniques are
overused: mismatched lists, abrupt transitions,
the reduction of a person's entire life to two or
three scenes. (It is this pictorial intention that
also governs the story called "Man on Pink
Corner.") The stories are not, nor do they
attempt to be, psychological.