Argentine short stories (Book Guide): Short stories by Jorge Luis Borges, Short stories by Julio Cortázar

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary (stories not included). Pages: 37. Chapters: Short stories by Jorge Luis Borges, Short stories by Julio Cortázar, Short story collections by Jorge Luis Borges, Short story collections by Julio Cortázar, Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius, The Library of Babel, The Garden of Forking Paths, Funes the Memorious, Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote, The Book of Sand, The Aleph, The Approach to Al-Mu'tasim, Blue Tigers, The South, The Congress, Ficciones, There Are More Things, A Universal History of Infamy, The Theologians, Shakespeare's Memory, The Immortal, Death and the Compass, Las fuerzas extrañas, The Circular Ruins, Three Versions of Judas, The Secret Miracle, The House of Asterion, The Sect of the Phoenix, The Two Kings and the Two Labyrinths, The Form of the Sword, Animal World, An Examination of the Work of Herbert Quain, The Lottery in Babylon, On Exactitude in Science, The Dead Man, Misteriosa Buenos Aires, House Taken Over, The Disk, Las armas secretas, Averroes's Search, The End, Theme of the Traitor and the Hero, The Gospel According to Mark, Deutsches Requiem, The Writing of the God, Ulrikke, The Other, Todos los fuegos el fuego, The Zahir, Final del juego, Blow-up and Other Stories, Borges and I, Emma Zunz, Bestiario, The Celestial Plot, The Encounter, The Wait, The Hero of Women, Caperucita Roja. Excerpt: "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" is a short story by the 20th century Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges. The story was first published in the Argentine journal Sur, May 1940. The "postscript" dated 1947 is intended to be anachronistic, set seven years in the future. The first English-language translation of the story was published in 1961. In the story, an encyclopedia article about a mysterious country called Uqbar is the first indication of Orbis Tertius, a massive conspiracy of intellectuals to imagine (and thereby cr...