• Publication: Cuentos breves y extraordinariosPublication Record # 672482
• Editors: Adolfo Bioy Casares, Jorge Luis Borges
• Date: 1955-00-00
• Publisher: Raigal
• Pub. Series: Panorama
• Pages: 211
• Format:
  pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
• Type: ANTHOLOGY
• Notes:

  • The title page reads: Jorge Luis Borges y Adolfo Bioy Casares / Cuentos breves y extraordinarios / (Antolgía) / Editorial Raigal / Buenos Aires
  • Reverse of title page states copyright date of 1955, no edition number or printing number. Final page of the book has printing date: 25 November 1955. Secondary sources do not name any earlier edition or printing, so this is almost certainly the 1st/1st.
  • The preface (Nota preliminar) is dated "29 July 1953" and signed with the editors' initials.
  • Some of these stories are the work of the editors which they attributed to fictitious sources; others are in fact verbatim extracts from existing sources. See the note of each content record for details of the attributed and actual source.
• External IDs:
  • BNF: cb31845801g cb33335008w
  • LTF: 48388
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 458642361

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• Nota preliminar (Cuentos breves y extraordinarios) • essay by Adolfo Bioy Casares and Jorge Luis Borges [as by J. L. B. and A. B. C.]
• 11 • La sentencia • [西遊記 / Monkey] • short story by uncredited (trans. of The Death Sentence 1971) [as by Wu Ch'êng-ên]
• 13 • El redentor secreto • (1872) • short story by uncredited
• 15 • El aniquilación de los ogros • short story by Lal Behari Day [as by uncredited]
• 17 • Historia de Cecilia • short story by Cicero [as by
  Cicerón^?Ciceron
  ]
• 19 • El encuentro • short story by uncredited
• 23 • Difícil de contentar • short story by Ibn Abd Rabbih
• 25 • Argumentos anotados por Nathaniel Hawthorne • essay by Nathaniel Hawthorne (trans. of Scattered Themes from the Note-Books of Nathaniel Hawthorne 1866)
• 27 • El sueño de Chuang Tzu • short story by
  莊子^?Chuang Tzu
  Zhuangzi
  Zhuāngzǐ
  Chuang-tzu
  (trans. of
  蝴蝶的夢想^?Húdié de mèngxiǎng
  unknown) [as by Herbert Allen Giles]
• 29 • El ciervo escondido • short story by
  列子^?Lièzĭ
  Liezi
  Lieh-Tzu
  Lieh Tzu
  (trans. of
  得鹿梦^?Dé lù mèng
  unknown) [as by Liehtse]
• 31 • Los brahmanes y el león • short story by uncredited (trans. of [The Foolish Scholars Bring a Lion Back to Life] unknown)
• 33 • Un golem • short story by uncredited
• 35 • La vuelta del maestro • short story by Adolfo Bioy Casares and Jorge Luis Borges and Alexandra David-Neel [as by Alexandra David-Neel]
• 37 • Temor de la cólera • short story by Ah'med el Qalyubi
• 39 • Andrómeda • essay by Samuel Butler (trans. of Andromeda 1917)
• 41 • El sueño • short story by O. Henry (trans. of The Dream 1910)
• 45 • La promesa del rey • short story by uncredited
• 47 • El juramiento del cautivo • short story by uncredited
• 48 • El intuitivo • non-genre • (1944) • short story by Alfonso Reyes
• 51 • Cómo descubrí al Superhombre • short story by G. K. Chesterton (trans. of How I Found the Superman 1908)
• 57 • Un mito de Alejandro • short story by Adrienne Bordenave
• 59 • La explicación • short story by Edwin Broster (trans. of The Explanation 1887)
• 61 • La obra y el poeta • short story by Sir Richard Francis Burton (trans. of The Work and the Poet 1887) [as by R. F. Burton]
• 63 • Eugenesia • non-genre • short story by William Drummond of Hawthornden (trans. of Eugenics (Latin) 1619) [as by Drummond]
• 65 • La mendiga de Nápoles • non-genre • short story by Max Jacob (trans. of La mendiante de Naples 1917)
• 67 • Un dios abandona a Alejandría • essay by Plutarch [as by Plutarco]
• 69 • La discípula • short story by
  莊子^?Chuang Tzu
  Zhuangzi
  Zhuāngzǐ
  Chuang-tzu
  (trans. of The Female Disciple 1889) [as by Herbert Allen Giles]
• 71 • El noveno esclavo • essay by Edward Gibbon (trans. of The Ninth Slave 1788) [as by Gibbon]
• 73 • Un vencedor • essay by Diego de Saavedra Fajardo (variant of Idea de un príncipe político cristiano, representada en cien empresas (Un vencedor) 1640) [as by Saavedra Fajardo]
• 75 • El peligroso taumaturgo • essay by M. R. Werner (trans. of The Dangerous Wonder-Worker 1925)
• 77 • El castillo • short story by Denis Diderot [as by Diderot]
• 79 • La estatua • essay by Plutarch [as by Plutarco]
• 81 • La advertencia • short story by Sir Richard Francis Burton (trans. of The Warning 1885) [as by R. F. Burton]
• 83 • Las facultades de Villena • short story by Menéndez y Pelayo
• 85 • La sombra de las jugadas • short story by Edwin Morgan (trans. of The Shadow of the Players 1988)
• 87 • La sombra de las jugadas • short story by Jorge Luis Borges [as by Celestino Palomeque]
• 89 • Los ojos culpables • short story by Ah'med Ech Chiruani
• 91 • El profeta, el pájaro y la red • short story by Ah'med et Tortuchi
• 93 • Los ciervos celestiales • short story by G. Willoughby-Meade (trans. of The Celestial Stag 1928)
• 95 • El cocinero • non-genre • short story by Max Jacob (trans. of Encore Fantômas 1917)
• 97 • Polemistas • (1911) • short story by
  Luis L. Antuñano^?Luis L. Antunano
• 99 • Perplejidades del cobarde • short story by Ah'med el Ibelichi
• 101 • La restitución de las llaves • essay by uncredited
• 103 • Sepulcros adiestrados • short story by Cicero [as by
  Marco Tulio Cicerón^?Marco Tulio Ciceron
  ]
• 105 • El silencio de las sirenas • short story by Franz Kafka (trans. of Das Schweigen der Sirenen 1931)
• 109 • La bofetada • short story by Andrew Lang (trans. of The Blow 1891)
• 111 • El dibujo del tapiz • essay by Arthur Machen (trans. of The Pattern on the Carpet)
• 113 • Historia de los dos reyes y de los dos laberintos • (1946) • short story by Jorge Luis Borges (variant of Los dos reyes y los dos laberintos) [as by R. F. Burton]
• 115 • La confesión • non-genre • short story by Manuel Peyrou
• 117 • Otra versión del Fausto • (1911) • essay by Fra Diavolo
• 119 • Hallazgo de un tesoro • short story by Marcial Tamayo
• 123 • El mayor tormento • short story by Emanuel Swedenborg [as by El falso Swedenborg]
• 125 • Teología • (1918) • short story by H. Garro
• 127 • El imán • short story by Hesketh Pearson (trans. of The Magnet 1946)
• 129 • La raza inextinguible • short story by Silvina Ocampo
• 133 • El gesto de la Muerte • short story by Jean Cocteau (trans. of Le jardinier et la Mort 1923)
• 135 • Fe, aluguna fe y ninguna fe • short story by Robert Louis Stevenson (trans. of Faith, Half-Faith, and No Faith at All 1895) [as by R. L. Stevenson]
• 139 • El milagro • short story by W. Somerset Maugham (trans. of The Miracle 1949)
• 141 • Triunfo social • non-genre • short story by Logan Pearsall Smith (trans. of Social Success 1918)
• 143 • El tren • (1946) • short story by Santiago Dabove
• 147 • Provocación castigada • short story by Ah'med el Qalyubi
• 149 • Cuento • short story by Paul Valéry (trans. of Supplice étrange 1950)
• 151 • Prestigieux, Sans Doute • short story by Aguirre Acevedo
• 153 • El ubicuo • short story by Moriz Winternitz (trans. of The Ubiquitous One, I 1971) [as by M. Winternitz]
• 155 • El ubicuo • short story by Jorge Luis Borges [as by Simao Pereyra]
• 157 • El descuido • short story by Martin Buber
• 159 • La secta del Loto Blanco • (1940) • short story by Richard Wilhelm (1873-1930) (trans. of Die Sekte vom Weißen Lotos 1914)
• 161 • La protección por el libro • short story by G. Willoughby-Meade (trans. of Saved by the Book 1928)
• 163 • El encuentro • short story by Jorge Luis Borges [as by Louis Prolat]
• 165 • Del agua de la isla • short story by Edgar Allan Poe (trans. of The Water on the Island) [as by Poe]
• 167 • Del rigor en la ciencia • short story by Jorge Luis Borges [as by Suárez Miranda]
• 169 • El estudioso • short story by Paul Adler and Michel Revon (trans. of [The Dedicated Student] 1926) [as by Adler-Revon]
• 171 • Vicisitudes del consuelo • short story by T. M. Chang (trans. of The Vicissitudes of Consolation 1882)
• 173 • La verdad sobre Sancho Panza • short story by Franz Kafka (trans. of Die Wahrheit über Sancho Pansa 1931)
• 175 • Un doble de Mahoma • essay by Emanuel Swedenborg
• 177 • La salvación • short story by Adolfo Bioy Casares
• 179 • En el insomnio • (1946) • short story by
  Virgilio Piñera^?Virgilio Pinera
• 181 • Distraerse • short story by Henri Michaux
• 184 • La tentación • essay by Edward William Lane (trans. of The Egyptian Temptation 1836)
• 185 • Un retrospectivo • short story by Jorge Luis Borges [as by Clemente Sosa]
• 187 • El acusado • short story by Martin Buber (trans. of Eine Verhandlung 1949)
• 189 • El espectador • (1844) • short story by José Zorrilla
• 191 • Peligros del exceso de piedad • short story by uncredited
• 193 • Final para un cuento fantástico • (1940) • short story by I. A. Ireland (trans. of Climax for a Ghost Story 1919)
• 195 • Cuatro reflexiones • essay by Franz Kafka (trans. of [Betrachtungen über Sünde, Leid, Hoffnung und den wahren Weg] 1931)
• 197 • Historia de zorros • short story by Niu Chiao
• 199 • Por si acaso • essay by Bede (trans. of Just in Case 1944) [as by Beda el Venerable]
• 201 • Odin • (1951) • short story by Jorge Luis Borges and Delia Ingenieros
• 203 • Aurea Mediocritas • short story by Tallemant des Réaux