Jorge Luis Borges
(Book)

Plot summary of "Death and the compass"

List of characters in "Death and the compass"

Critical views on "Death and the compass." Jorge Luis Borges on the story ; Edna Aizenberg on Jewish elements and Spinoza ; Harold Bloom on aesthetic motivations ; Carlos Fuentes on city and fiction ; Jorge Hernández Martín on detective fiction ; Svend Østergård on representation ; Floyd Merrell on labyrinths and the story

Plot summary of "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius"

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Critical views on "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius." Didier T. Jaén on esoteric tradition ; Evelyn Fishburn and Psiche Hughes : definition of Orbus Tertius ; Roberto González Echevarría on the story ; Beatriz Urraca on mirrors and Tlön ; Sylvia Molloy on language ; Gabriel Josipovici on ideologies ; Jorge Luis Borges interview on Tlön

Plot summary of "The immortal"

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Critical views on "The immortal." George R. McMurray on an allegory of the creative process ; Michael Evans on intertextuality ; Evelyn Fishburn and Psiche Hughes : definition of Joseph Cartaphilus ; Evelyn Fishburn and Psiche Hughes : definition of Argos ; Jon Stewart on Christian view of immortality ; Harold Bloom on the irony present in the story ; Dominique Jullien on biographies of an immortal ; René de Costa on humor in Borges

Plot summary of "The Aleph"

List of characters in "The Aleph"

Critical views on "The aleph." Jorge Luis Borges writing about "The Aleph" ; Jon Thiem on Borges-Dante parallels ; Evelyn Fishburn and Psiche Hughes : definition of Aleph ; María Rosa Menocal on visions of Beatriz/Beatrice ; Jorge Luis Borges on the story ; Nada Elia on Islamic mysticism in the story ; María Kodama on mystical experience

Plot summary of "The South"

List of characters in "The South"

Critical views on "The South." Jorge Luis Borges on the story ; Jaime Alazraki on structure and autobiography in the story ; Ana María Barrenchea on repetition in texts ; Evelyn Fishburn and Psiche Hughes : definition of gaucho ; Didier T. Jaén on time (fiction/loss) in the story ; Jorge Luis Borges on the story.