A collection of short stories, essays, and parables

Contents:

• Fictions
  • Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius
  • The Garden of Forking Paths
  • The Lottery in Babylon
  • Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote
  • The Circular Ruins
  • The Library of Babel
  • Funes the Memorious
  • The Shape of the Sword
  • Theme of the Traitor and the Hero
  • Death and the Compass
  • The Secret Miracle
  • Three Versions of Judas
  • The Sect of the Phoenix
  • The Immortal
  • The Theologians
  • Story of the Warrior and the Captive
  • Emma Zunz
  • The House of Asteron
  • Deutsches Requiem
  • Averroes' Search
  • The Zahir
  • The Waiting
  • The God's Script
• Essays
  • The Argentine Writer and Tradition
  • The Wall and the Books
  • The Fearful Sphere of Pascal
  • Partial Magic in the Quixote
  • Valery as Symbol
  • Kafka and His Precursors
  • Avatars of the Tortoise
  • The Mirror of Enigmas
  • A Note on (toward) Bernard Shaw
  • A New Refutation of Time
• Parables
  • Inferno, I, 32
  • Paradiso, XXXI, 108
  • Ragnarök
  • Parables of Cervantes and the Quixote
  • The Witness
  • A Problem
  • Borges and I
  • Everything and Nothing
  • Elegy