![]() ![]() Many of the stories return to the same set of images and themes that mark Borges's best known work: the code of ethics embraced by gauchos, knifefighters and outlaws labyrinths confrontations with one's doppelganger and discoveries of artifacts from other worlds (an encyclopedia of a mysterious region in Iraq a strange disc that has only one side and that gives a king his power a menacing book that infinitely multiplies its own pages fragmentary manuscripts that narrate otherworldly accounts of lands of the immortals). ![]() ![]() Undeniably one of the most influential writers to emerge in this century from Latin America or anywhere else, Borges (1899-1986) is best known for his short stories, all of which appear here for the first time in one volume, translated and annotated by University of Puerto Rico professor Hurley. ![]()
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