Contents
Introduction by Andrew Hurley
The Aleph (1949) 1
The Immortal 3
The dead man 20
The theologians 26
Story of the warrior and the captive maiden 35
A biography of Tadeo Isidoro Cruz (1829-1874) 40
Emma Zunz 44
The house of Asterion 51
The other death 54
Deutsches requiem 62
Averroes' search 69
The Zahir 79
The writing of the God 89
Ibn-Hakam al-Bokhari, murdered in his labyrinth 95
The two kings and the two labyrinths 105
The wait 107
The man on the threshold 112
The Aleph 118
Afterword 134
The Maker (1960) 137
Forword: for Leopold Lugones 139
The maker 140
Dreamtigers 143
A dialog about a dialog 144
Toenails 145
Covered mirrors 146
Argumentum Ornithologicum 148
The captive 149
The mountebank 151
Delia Elena San Marco 153
The dialog between dead men 154
The plot 157
A problem 158
The yellow rose 160
The witness 161
Martin Fierro 163
Mutations 165
Parable of Cervantes and the Quixot 166
Paradiso, XXXI, 108 167
Parable of the palace 169
Everything and nothing 171
Ragnarok 174
Inferno, I, 32 176
Borges and I 177
Museum 179
On exactitude and science 181
In memoriam J.F.K. 182
Afterword 183
A Note on the Translation 185
Acknowledgement 193
Notes to the Fiction 195