Contents

Fictions

Tlon, uqbar, orbis, tertius

The garden of forking paths

The lottery in Babylon

Pirre 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

The God's script

Essays

The argentine writer and tradition

The wall and the books

The fearful sphere of Pascal

Partial magic in the Quixote

Valery as symbol

Kafka and his precursors

Avatars of the tortoise

The mirror of enigmas

A note on Bernard Shaw

A new refutation of time

Parables

Inferno, I, 32

Paradise, XXXI, 108

Parable of Cervantes and the Quixote

The witness

A problem

Borges and I

Everything and nothing