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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