• Publication: Cuentos breves y extraordinariosPublication Record # 672883
• Editors: Adolfo Bioy Casares, Jorge Luis Borges
• Date: 1970-01-00
• Publisher: Santiago Rueda
• Pub. Series: Colección mundial Rueda
• Pub. Series #: 2
• Pages: 146
• Format:
  tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
• Type: ANTHOLOGY
• Notes:

  • This is the updated 1967 edition, which contains five additional stories that weren't in the 1955 edition, but is otherwise identical.
  • The title page reads in full: Jorge Luis Borges / Adolfo Bioy Casares / Cuentos breves y extraordinarios / (Antología) / Santiago Rueda - Editor / Buenos Aires
  • Reverse of title page has the copyright date 1967; last page of book has the printing date 5 January 1970.
  • Publication series according to WorldCat.
  • Wu Ch'êng-ên's name is printed "Wu Ch'eng-en" in this book.
• External IDs:
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 65319237

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• 7 • Nota preliminar (Cuentos breves y extraordinarios) • (1955) • essay by Adolfo Bioy Casares and Jorge Luis Borges [as by J. L. B. and A. B. C.]
• 9 • La sentencia • [西遊記 / Monkey] • (1955) • short story by uncredited (trans. of The Death Sentence 1971) [as by Wu Ch'êng-ên]
• 11 • El redentor secreto • (1872) • short story by uncredited
• 12 • El aniquilación de los ogros • (1955) • short story by Lal Behari Day [as by uncredited]
• 13 • Historia de Cecilia • (1955) • short story by Cicero [as by
  Cicerón^?Ciceron
  ]
• 14 • El encuentro • (1955) • short story by uncredited
• 17 • Difícil de contentar • (1955) • short story by Ibn Abd Rabbih
• 18 • Argumentos anotados por Nathaniel Hawthorne • (1955) • essay by Nathaniel Hawthorne (trans. of Scattered Themes from the Note-Books of Nathaniel Hawthorne 1866)
• 20 • El sueño de Chuang Tzu • (1955) • 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]
• 21 • El ciervo escondido • (1955) • short story by
  列子^?Lièzĭ
  Liezi
  Lieh-Tzu
  Lieh Tzu
  (trans. of
  得鹿梦^?Dé lù mèng
  unknown) [as by Liehtse]
• 23 • Los brahmanes y el león • (1955) • short story by uncredited (trans. of [The Foolish Scholars Bring a Lion Back to Life] unknown)
• 25 • Un golem • (1955) • short story by uncredited
• 26 • La vuelta del maestro • (1955) • short story by Adolfo Bioy Casares and Jorge Luis Borges and Alexandra David-Neel [as by Alexandra David-Neel]
• 28 • Temor de la cólera • (1955) • short story by Ah'med el Qalyubi
• 29 • Andrómeda • (1955) • essay by Samuel Butler (trans. of Andromeda 1917)
• 30 • El sueño • (1955) • short story by O. Henry (trans. of The Dream 1910)
• 34 • La promesa del rey • (1955) • short story by uncredited
• 36 • El juramiento del cautivo • (1955) • short story by uncredited
• 37 • Nosce te ipsum • (1968) • essay by Fergus Nicholson (trans. of Nosce Te Ipsum 1917)
• 38 • El intuitivo • non-genre • (1944) • short story by Alfonso Reyes
• 39 • Cómo descubrí al Superhombre • (1955) • short story by G. K. Chesterton (trans. of How I Found the Superman 1908)
• 44 • El despertar del rey • (1967) • essay by H. Desvignes Doolittle (trans. of The King's Awakening 1903)
• 45 • Muerte de un jefe • (1967) • essay by León Rivera
• 46 • El aviso • (1967) • short story by George D. Brown (trans. of The Announcement 1901)
• 47 • La explicación • (1955) • short story by Edwin Broster (trans. of The Explanation 1887)
• 48 • Un mito de Alejandro • (1955) • short story by Adrienne Bordenave
• 49 • La obra y el poeta • (1955) • short story by Sir Richard Francis Burton (trans. of The Work and the Poet 1887) [as by R. F. Burton]
• 50 • Eugenesia • non-genre • (1955) • short story by William Drummond of Hawthornden (trans. of Eugenics (Latin) 1619) [as by Drummond]
• 51 • La mendiga de Nápoles • non-genre • (1955) • short story by Max Jacob (trans. of La mendiante de Naples 1917)
• 52 • Un dios abandona a Alejandría • (1955) • essay by Plutarch [as by Plutarco]
• 53 • La discípula • (1955) • short story by
  莊子^?Chuang Tzu
  Zhuangzi
  Zhuāngzǐ
  Chuang-tzu
  (trans. of The Female Disciple 1889) [as by Herbert Allen Giles]
• 54 • El noveno esclavo • (1955) • essay by Edward Gibbon (trans. of The Ninth Slave 1788) [as by Gibbon]
• 55 • Un vencedor • (1955) • 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]
• 56 • El peligroso taumaturgo • (1955) • essay by M. R. Werner (trans. of The Dangerous Wonder-Worker 1925)
• 57 • El castillo • (1955) • short story by Denis Diderot [as by Diderot]
• 58 • La estatua • (1955) • essay by Plutarch [as by Plutarco]
• 59 • La advertencia • (1955) • short story by Sir Richard Francis Burton (trans. of The Warning 1885) [as by R. F. Burton]
• 60 • Las facultades de Villena • (1955) • short story by Menéndez y Pelayo
• 62 • La sombra de las jugadas • (1955) • short story by Edwin Morgan (trans. of The Shadow of the Players 1988)
• 63 • La sombra de las jugadas • (1955) • short story by Jorge Luis Borges [as by Celestino Palomeque]
• 64 • Los ojos culpables • (1955) • short story by Ah'med Ech Chiruani
• 65 • El profeta, el pájaro y la red • (1955) • short story by Ah'med et Tortuchi
• 66 • Los ciervos celestiales • (1955) • short story by G. Willoughby-Meade (trans. of The Celestial Stag 1928)
• 67 • El cocinero • non-genre • (1955) • short story by Max Jacob (trans. of Encore Fantômas 1917)
• 68 • Polemistas • (1911) • short story by
  Luis L. Antuñano^?Luis L. Antunano
• 69 • Perplejidades del cobarde • (1955) • short story by Ah'med el Ibelichi
• 70 • La restitución de las llaves • (1955) • essay by uncredited
• 71 • Sepulcros adiestrados • (1955) • short story by Cicero [as by
  Marco Tulio Cicerón^?Marco Tulio Ciceron
  ]
• 72 • El silencio de las sirenas • (1955) • short story by Franz Kafka (trans. of Das Schweigen der Sirenen 1931)
• 75 • La bofetada • (1955) • short story by Andrew Lang (trans. of The Blow 1891)
• 77 • El dibujo del tapiz • (1955) • essay by Arthur Machen (trans. of The Pattern on the Carpet)
• 78 • 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]
• 80 • La confesión • non-genre • (1955) • short story by Manuel Peyrou
• 81 • Otra versión del Fausto • (1911) • essay by Fra Diavolo
• 83 • Hallazgo de un tesoro • (1955) • short story by Marcial Tamayo
• 87 • El mayor tormento • (1955) • short story by Emanuel Swedenborg [as by El falso Swedenborg]
• 88 • Teología • (1918) • short story by H. Garro
• 90 • El imán • (1955) • short story by Hesketh Pearson (trans. of The Magnet 1946)
• 92 • La raza inextinguible • (1955) • short story by Silvina Ocampo
• 96 • El gesto de la Muerte • (1955) • short story by Jean Cocteau (trans. of Le jardinier et la Mort 1923)
• 97 • Fe, aluguna fe y ninguna fe • (1955) • short story by Robert Louis Stevenson (trans. of Faith, Half-Faith, and No Faith at All 1895) [as by R. L. Stevenson]
• 100 • El milagro • (1955) • short story by W. Somerset Maugham (trans. of The Miracle 1949)
• 101 • Dos coeternos • (1967) • short story by Johannes Cambrencis (trans. of Two Co-eternals 1971)
• 102 • Triunfo social • non-genre • (1955) • short story by Logan Pearsall Smith (trans. of Social Success 1918)
• 103 • El tren • (1946) • short story by Santiago Dabove
• 106 • Provocación castigada • (1955) • short story by Ah'med el Qalyubi
• 107 • Cuento • (1955) • short story by Paul Valéry (trans. of Supplice étrange 1950)
• 108 • Prestigieux, Sans Doute • (1955) • short story by Aguirre Acevedo
• 109 • El ubicuo • (1955) • short story by Moriz Winternitz (trans. of The Ubiquitous One, I 1971) [as by M. Winternitz]
• 110 • El ubicuo • (1955) • short story by Jorge Luis Borges [as by Simao Pereyra]
• 111 • El descuido • (1955) • short story by Martin Buber
• 112 • La secta del Loto Blanco • (1940) • short story by Richard Wilhelm (1873-1930) (trans. of Die Sekte vom Weißen Lotos 1914)
• 114 • La protección por el libro • (1955) • short story by G. Willoughby-Meade (trans. of Saved by the Book 1928)
• 116 • El encuentro • (1955) • short story by Jorge Luis Borges [as by Louis Prolat]
• 117 • Del agua de la isla • (1955) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe (trans. of The Water on the Island) [as by Poe]
• 119 • Del rigor en la ciencia • (1955) • short story by Jorge Luis Borges [as by Suárez Miranda]
• 120 • El estudioso • (1955) • short story by Paul Adler and Michel Revon (trans. of [The Dedicated Student] 1926) [as by Adler-Revon]
• 121 • Vicisitudes del consuelo • (1955) • short story by T. M. Chang (trans. of The Vicissitudes of Consolation 1882)
• 123 • La verdad sobre Sancho Panza • (1955) • short story by Franz Kafka (trans. of Die Wahrheit über Sancho Pansa 1931)
• 124 • Un doble de Mahoma • (1955) • essay by Emanuel Swedenborg
• 126 • La salvación • (1955) • short story by Adolfo Bioy Casares
• 127 • En el insomnio • (1946) • short story by
  Virgilio Piñera^?Virgilio Pinera
• 128 • Distraerse • (1955) • short story by Henri Michaux
• 129 • La tentación • (1955) • essay by Edward William Lane (trans. of The Egyptian Temptation 1836)
• 131 • Un retrospectivo • (1955) • short story by Jorge Luis Borges [as by Clemente Sosa]
• 132 • El acusado • (1955) • short story by Martin Buber (trans. of Eine Verhandlung 1949)
• 134 • El espectador • (1844) • short story by José Zorrilla
• 135 • Peligros del exceso de piedad • (1955) • short story by uncredited
• 136 • Final para un cuento fantástico • (1940) • short story by I. A. Ireland (trans. of Climax for a Ghost Story 1919)
• 137 • Cuatro reflexiones • (1955) • essay by Franz Kafka (trans. of [Betrachtungen über Sünde, Leid, Hoffnung und den wahren Weg] 1931)
• 139 • Historia de zorros • (1955) • short story by Niu Chiao
• 140 • Por si acaso • (1955) • essay by Bede (trans. of Just in Case 1944) [as by Beda el Venerable]
• 141 • Odin • (1951) • short story by Jorge Luis Borges and Delia Ingenieros
• 142 • Aurea Mediocritas • (1955) • short story by Tallemant des Réaux