Preface -- Introduction -- 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 asterion -- Deutsches requiem -- Averroes' search -- The zahir -- The waiting -- Essays -- The argentine writer and tradition -- The wall and the books -- The fearful sphere of pascal -- Partial magic in the quxote -- Valéry 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 -- Parable of cervantes and the quixote -- The witness -- A problem -- Borges and I -- Everything and nothing -- Bibliography
Summary
Forty short stories and essays have been selected as representative of the Argentine writer's metaphysical narratives.
