Chronology -- Buenos Aires and beyond -- Portrait of a mind -- What Borges did for prose fiction -- The apprentice fiction maker -- Ficciones I : doubles, dreamers, and detectives -- Ficciones II : the world within a book -- El Aleph I : doubles and puzzles -- El Aleph II : tales of action and violence -- El aleph III : the visionary experience -- Dreamtigers and later works : a tentative summation -- Literature and politics north and south.