Jorge Luis Borges Books

I imagined a young man, a student stranded by a flood on an isolated ranch, who begins reading the Gospel to the illiterate Gutres family. He reads it earnestly, as one might read to pass the time, but the act transforms into something far greater — and terrible. The unlettered listeners take the te...

From Doctor Brodie's Report

I have long been fascinated by friendship and betrayal, those twin faces of human intimacy. In 'The Unworthy Friend,' two men in Buenos Aires, bound by mutual affection and a shared sense of honor, reveal how loyalty can conceal resentment. One of them, speaking from memory and perhaps from guilt, r...

From Doctor Brodie's Report

The story begins with what seems an academic curiosity—a strange encyclopedia entry about a nonexistent country called Uqbar. Yet as the narrator pursues the mystery, he uncovers the fictional world of Tlön, a perfect intellectual construction created by secret scholars. This imagined cosmos is gove...

From Ficciones

This tale disguises itself as a review of an imaginary novel, yet beneath its academic tone lies a spiritual allegory. A disenchanted student of law, after a life of violence, begins to notice rare gleams of goodness in others—reflections of a single transcendent purity embodied in a figure called A...

From Ficciones

It begins with a conversation between friends about a mysterious encyclopedia entry describing a nonexistent land, Uqbar. That chance discovery grows into the unmasking of a vast, secret conspiracy: the elaboration of an entire invented planet, Tlön, designed by generations of anonymous scholars. It...

From Ficciones (Spanish Edition)

Here I disguised an invention as a review, fabricating an imaginary novel called *The Approach to Al-Mu’tasim*. The summary itself becomes the story. The purported book is a parable of a man’s spiritual search for a being of perfect purity—the eponymous Al-Mu’tasim—whose invisible presence is inferr...

From Ficciones (Spanish Edition)