The Aleph and Other Stories

Contents Introduction by Andrew Hurley vii The Aleph (1949) 1 The Immortal 3 The Dead Man 20 The Theologians 26 Story of the Warrior and the Captive Maiden 35 A Biography of Tadeo Isidoro Cruz (1829–1874) 40 Emma Zunz 44 The House of Asterion 51 The Other Death 54 Deutsches Requiem 62 Averroes' Search 69 The Zahir 79 The Writing of the God 89 Ibn-Hakam al-Bokhari, Murdered in His Labyrinth 95 The Two Kings and the Two Labyrinths 105 The Wait 107 The Man on the Threshold 112 The Aleph 118 Afterword 134 The Maker (1960) 137 Foreword: For Leopold Lugones 139 The Maker 140 Dreamtigers 143 A Dialog About a Dialog 144 Toenails 145 Covered Mirrors 146 Argumentum Ornithologicum 148 The Captive 149 The Mountebank 151 Delia Elena San Marco 153 A Dialog Between Dead Men 154 The Plot 157 A Problem 158 The Yellow Rose 160 The Witness 161 Martín Fierro 163 Mutations 165 Parable of Cervantes and the Quixote 166 Paradiso, XXXI, 108 167 Parable of the Palace 169 Everything and Nothing 171 Ragnarök 174 Inferno, I, 32 176 Borges and I 177 Museum 179 On Exactitude and Science 181 In Memoriam, J.F.K. 182 Afterword 183 A Note on the Translation 185 Acknowledgments 193 Notes to the Fictions 195