Fiction and Essays (view Full Listing)

• xi • A Note on This Edition (Selected Non-Fictions of Borges) • essay by Eliot Weinberger
• 28 • Literary Pleasure • essay by Jorge Luis Borges (trans. of La fruición literaria 1927)
• 43 • The Perpetual Race of Achilles and the Tortoise • essay by Jorge Luis Borges (trans. of La perpetua carrera de Aquiles y la tortuga 1929)
• 48 • The Duration of Hell • essay by Jorge Luis Borges (trans. of La duración del infierno 1929)
• 52 • The Superstitious Ethics of the Reader • essay by Jorge Luis Borges (trans. of La supersticiosa ética del lector 1931)
• 59 • The Postulation of Reality • essay by Jorge Luis Borges (trans. of La postulación de la realidad 1931)
• 65 • A Defense of Basilides the False • essay by Jorge Luis Borges (trans. of Una vindicación del falso Basílides 1932)
• 75 • Narrative Art and Magic • essay by Jorge Luis Borges (trans. of El arte narrativo y la magia 1932)
• 83 • A Defense of the Kabbalah • essay by Jorge Luis Borges (trans. of Una vindicación de la cábala 1932)
• 92 • The Translators of The Thousand and One Nights • essay by Jorge Luis Borges (trans. of Los traductores de las 1001 noches 1936)
• 112 • The Labyrinths of the Detective Story and Chesterton • essay by Jorge Luis Borges (trans. of Los laberintos policiales y Chesterton 1935)
• 115 • The Doctrine of Cycles • essay by Jorge Luis Borges (trans. of La doctrina de los ciclos 1936)
• 123 • A History of Eternity • essay by Jorge Luis Borges (trans. of Historia de la eternidad 1936)
• 150 • Wells, the Visionary • essay by Jorge Luis Borges (trans. of Wells, previsor 1936)
• 155 • Ramón Llull's Thinking Machine • essay by Jorge Luis Borges (trans. of La máquina de pensar de Raimundo Lulio 1937)
• 160 • When Fiction Lives in Fiction • essay by Jorge Luis Borges (trans. of Cuando la ficción vive en la ficción 1939)
• 189 • Two Fantasy Novels • essay by Jorge Luis Borges (trans. of Dos novelas fantásticas 1938)
• 214 • The Total Library • essay by Jorge Luis Borges (trans. of La biblioteca total 1939)
• 217 • Time and J. W. Dunne • essay by Jorge Luis Borges (trans. of El tiempo y J. W. Dunne 1940)
• 222 • The Creation and P. H. Gosse • essay by Jorge Luis Borges (trans. of La creación y P. H. Gosse 1941)
• 225 • Circular Time • essay by Jorge Luis Borges (trans. of El tiempo circular 1941)
• 229 • John Wilkins' Analytical Language • essay by Jorge Luis Borges (trans. of El idioma analítico de John Wilkins 1942)
• 236 • On William Beckford's "Vathek" • essay by Jorge Luis Borges (trans. of Sobre el Vathek de William Beckford 1943)
• 240 • Coleridge's Flower • essay by Jorge Luis Borges (trans. of La flor de Coleridge 1945)
• 243 • Prologue to Adolfo Bioy Casares, "The Invention of Morel" • essay by Jorge Luis Borges (trans. of Prólogo (La invención de Morel) 1940)
• 245 • Prologue to Herman Melville, "Bartleby the Scrivener" • essay by Jorge Luis Borges (trans. of Prólogo (Bartleby) 1944)
• 249 • Edward Kasner & James Newman, "Mathematics and the Imagination" • essay by Jorge Luis Borges (trans. of Edward Kasner & James Newman: Mathematics and the Imagination [reseña] 1940)
• 252 • Arthur Waley, "Monkey" • essay by Jorge Luis Borges (trans. of Sobre una alegoría china 1942)
• 254 • Leslie Weatherhead, "After Death" • essay by Jorge Luis Borges (trans. of Leslie D. Weatherhead: After Death [reseña] 1943)
• 259 • Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Transformed • essay by Jorge Luis Borges (trans. of El Dr. Jekyll y Edward Hyde, transformados 1941)
• 317 • A New Refutation of Time • essay by Jorge Luis Borges (trans. of Nueva refutación del tiempo 1947)
• 337 • From Allegories to Novels • essay by Jorge Luis Borges (trans. of De las alegorías a las novelas 1949)
• 341 • From Someone to Nobody • essay by Jorge Luis Borges (trans. of De alguien a nadie 1950)
• 344 • The Wall and the Books • essay by Jorge Luis Borges (trans. of La muralla y los libros 1950)
• 351 • Pascal's Sphere • essay by Jorge Luis Borges (trans. of La esfera de Pascal 1947)
• 358 • On the Cult of Books • essay by Jorge Luis Borges (trans. of Del culto de los libros 1951)
• 363 • Kafka and His Precursors • essay by Jorge Luis Borges (trans. of Kafka y sus precursores 1951)
• 369 • Coleridge's Dream • essay by Jorge Luis Borges (trans. of El sueño de Coleridge 1951)
• 373 • Forms of a Legend • essay by Jorge Luis Borges (trans. of Formas de una leyenda 1952)
• 382 • The Dialogues of Ascetic and King • essay by Jorge Luis Borges (trans. of Diálogos del asceta y del rey 1953)
• 418 • Prologue to Ray Bradbury, "The Martian Chronicles" • essay by Jorge Luis Borges (trans. of Prólogo (Crónicas marcianas) 1955)
• 437 • Prologue to Ryunosuke Akutagawa, "The Kappa" • essay by Jorge Luis Borges (trans. of Prólogo (Kappa. Los engranadajes) 1959)
• 501 • Prologue to Franz Kafka, "The Vulture" • essay by Jorge Luis Borges (trans. of Prólogo (El buitre) 1979)
• 503 • Prologue to Jack London, "The Concentric Deaths" • essay by Jorge Luis Borges (trans. of Prólogo (Las muertes concéntricas) 1979)
• 505 • Prologue to Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, "The Guest at the Last Banquets" • essay by Jorge Luis Borges (trans. of Prólogo (El conviado de las últimas fiestas) 1984)
• 507 • Prologue to P'u Sung-ling, "The Tiger Guest" • essay by Jorge Luis Borges (trans. of Prólogo (El invitado tigre) 1985)
• 508 • Prologue to Charles Howard Hinton, "Scientific Romances" • essay by Jorge Luis Borges (trans. of Prólogo (Relatos científicos) 1986)
• 514 • Prologue to Julio Cortázar, "Stories" • essay by Jorge Luis Borges (trans. of Prólogo (Julio Cortázar, Cuentos) 1985)
• 516 • Prologue to H. G. Wells, "The Time Machine"; "The Invisible Man" • essay by Jorge Luis Borges (trans. of Prólogo (La máquina del tiempo; El hombre invisible) 1985)