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Argentinian writer (Buenos Aires August 24, 1899 - Geneva June 14, 1986), mainly known for his short stories, he also wrote poetry and a considerable amount of literary criticism. Some consider him one of the founders of the Latin-American school of Magic Realism. His work is profoundly learned (and occasionally deliberately misleading) and is often concerned with the nature of infinity, mirrors, labyrinths and identity.

Collections

• Six Problems for Don Isidro (1942) (writing as H Bustos Domecq)

• A Universal History of Infamy (1954)

• Ficciones (1956)

• A Personal Anthology (1961)

• Dreamtigers (1964)

• Labyrinths (1964)

• Chronicles of Bustos Domecq (1967) (with Adolfo Bioy-Casares)

• Extraordinary Tales (1967) (with Adolfo Bioy-Casares)

• Doctor Brodie's Report (1970)

• The Book of Sand (1975)

• The Aleph and Other Stories 1933-1969 (1978)

• Seven Nights (1988)

• Obras Completas (1989)

• Everything and Nothing (1997)

• Collected Fictions (1998)

Short Stories

• "The Chamber of Statues" (1933)

• "The Dread Redeemer Lazarus Morell" (1933)

• "The Insulting Master of Etiquette Kotsuke no Suke" (1933)

• "The Mirror of Ink" (1933)

• "Monk Eastman, Purveyor of Iniquities" (1933)

• "Streetcorner Man" (1933)

• "Tom Castro, the Implausible Imposter" (1933)

• "The Widow Ching, Lady Pirate" (1933)

• "The Wizard Postponed" (1933)

• "The Masked Dyer, Hakim of Merv" (1934)

• "Tale of the Two Dreamers" (1934)

• "A Theologian in Death" (1934)

• "The Disinterested Killer Bill Harrigan" (1935)

• "The Library of Babel" (1941)

• "Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" (1941)

• "The Aleph" (1945)

• "A Double for Mohammed" (1946)

• "The Generous Enemy" (1946)

• "Of Exactitude in Science" (1946)

• "Funes the Memorious" (1962)

• "The Immortal" (1962)

• "The Lottery in Babylon" (1962)

• "The Intruder" (1966)

• "Death and the Compass" (1968)

• "The Meeting" (1969)

• "Rosendo's Tale" (1969)

• "Doctor Brodie's Report" (1970)

• "The Duel" (1970)

• "The Elder Lady" (1970)

• "The End of the Duel" (1970)

• "The Gospel According to Mark" (1970)

• "Guayaquil" (1970)

• "Juan Murana" (1970)

• "The Unworthy Friend" (1970)

• "Utopia of a Tired Man" (1975) (Nebula award nominee)

• "August 25, 1983" (1982)

• "The Rose of Paracelsus" (1998)

• "Avelino Arredondo"

• "The Book of Sand"

• "The Bribe"

• "The Circular Ruins"

• "The Congress"

• "The Disk"

• "The Mirror and the Mask"

• "The Night of the Gifts"

• "Odin" (with Delia Ingenieros)

• "The Other"

• "The Sect of the Thirty"

• "There Are More Things"

• "Ulrike"

• "Undr"

• "The Zahir"

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