Tuesday, June 13, 2023
Libros sugeridos
Julio Cortázar: Cuentos
• Evangelios apócrifos
• Franz Kafka: América / Relatos breves
• Gilbert Keith Chesterton: La cruz azul y otros cuentos
• Maurice Maeterlinck: La inteligencia de las flores
• Dino Buzzati: El desierto de los tártaros
• Henrik Ibsen: Peer Gynt / Hedda Glaber
• José María Eça de Queiroz: El mandarín
• Leopoldo Lugones: El imperio jesuítico
• André Gide: Los monederos falsos
• Herbert George Wells: La máquina del tiempo / El hombre invisible
• Robert Graves: Los mitos griegos
• Fiodor Dostoievski: Los demonios
• Edward Kasner & James Newman: Matemáticas e imaginación
• Eugene O’Neill: El gran dios Brown / Extraño interludio
• Herman Melville: Benito Cereno / Bily Budd / Bartleby, el escribiente
• Giovanni Papini: Lo trágico cotidiano / El piloto ciego / Palabras y sangre
• Arthur Machen: Los tres impostores
• Fray Luis de León: Cantar de cantares / Exposición del Libro de Job
• Joseph Conrad: El corazón de las tinieblas / Con la soga al cuello
• Oscar Wilde: Ensayos y diálogos
• Henri Michaux: Un bárbaro en Asia
• Hermann Hesse: El juego de los abalorios
• Arnold Bennett: Enterrado en vida
• Claudio Eliano: Historia de los animales
• Thorstein Veblen: Teoría de la clase ociosa
• Gustave Flaubert: Las tentaciones de San Antonio
• Marco Polo: La descripción del mundo
• Marcel Schwob: Vidas imaginarias
• George Bernard Shaw: César y Cleopatra / La comandante Bárbara / Cándida
• Francisco de Quevedo: La Fortuna con seso y la hora de todos / Marco Bruto
• Eden Phillpotts: Los rojos Redmayne
• Sóren Kierkegaard: Temor y temblor
• Gustav Meyrink: El Golem
• Henry James: La lección del maestro / La vida privada / La figura en la alfombra
• Heródoto: Los nueve libros de Historia
• Juan Rulfo: Pedro Páramo
• Rudyard Kipling: Relatos
• Daniel Defoe: Moll Flanders
• Jean Cocteau: El secreto profesional y otros textos
• Thomas de Quincey: Los últimos días de Emmanuel Kant y otros escritos
• Ramón Gómez de la Serna: Prólogo a la obra de Silverio Lanza
• Antoine Galland: Las mil y una noches (selección)
• Robert Louis Stevenson: Las nuevas noches árabes
• León Bloy: La salvación por los judíos / La sangre del pobre / En las tinieblas
• Bhagavad-Gita
• Poema de Gilgamesh
• Juan José Arreola: Cuentos fantásticos
• David Garnett: De dama a zorro / Un hombre en el zoológico / La vuelta del marinero
• Jonathan Swift: Viajes de Gulliver
• Paul Groussac: Crítica literaria
• Manuel Mujica Láinez: Los ídolos
• Juan Ruiz: Libro de buen amor
• William Blake: Poesía completa
• Hugh Walpole: En la plaza oscura
• Ezequiel Martínez Estrada: Obra poética
• Edgar Allan Poe: Cuentos
• Publio Virgilio Marón: La Eneida
• Voltaire: Cuentos
• J. W. Dunne: Un experimento con el tiempo
• Attilio Momigliano: Ensayo sobre el Orlando Furioso
• William James: Las variedades de la experiencia religiosa: Estudio sobre la naturaleza humana
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Jack London, The Concentric Deaths
“The Minions of Midas”
“The Shadow and the Flash”
“Lost Face”
“The House of Mapuhi”
“The Law of Life”
Jorge Luis Borges, August 26, 1983
(All but the last three articles are available in Penguin’s Borges: The Collected Fictions.)
“August 26, 1983″
“The Rose of Peracelsus”
“Blue Tigers”
“Shakespeare’s Memory”
An Interview with Borges, with Maria Esther Vasquez
A Chronology of J.L. Borges’ Life, from Siruela Magazine
The Ruler and Labyrinth: An Approximation of J.L Borges’ Bibliography, by Fernandez Ferrer
Gustav Meyrink, Cardinal Napellus[ii]
“Der Kardinal Napellus”
“J.H. Obereits Besuch bei den Zeitegeln”
“Der Vier Mondbrüder”
Léon Bloy, Disagreeable Tales
[All available in a translation published just this year]
“La Taie d’Argent”
“Les Captifs de Longjumeau”
“Une Idée Médiocre”
“Une Martyre”
“La Plus Belle Trouvaille de Caïn”
“On n’est pas Parfait”
“La Religion de M. Pleur”
“Terrible Châtiment d’un Dentiste”
“La Tisane”
“Tout Ce Que Tu Voudras!”
“La Dernière Cuite”
“Le Vieux de la Maison”
Giovanni Papini, The Mirror That Fled
“Il Giorno Non Restituito”
“Due Immagini in una Vasca”
“Lo Specchio che Fugge”
“Storia Completamente Assurda”
“Il Mendicante di Anime”
“Una Morte Mentale”
“Non Voglio Più Essere Ciò che Sono”
“Chi Sei?”
“Il Suicida Sostituto”
“L’ultima Visita del Gentiluomo Malato”
Oscar Wilde, Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime
“Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime”
“The Canterville Ghost”
“The Selfish Giant”
“The Happy Prince”
“The Nightingale and the Rose”
Villiers de L’Isle-Adam, El Convidado de las Últimas Festivas
(Used copies of the 1985 Oxford U. Press translation of Cruel Tales (the collection in which these stories are published) are available online.)
“L’Aventure de Tsé-i-la”
“Le Convive des Dernières Fêtes”
“A Torture By Hope” [trans. 1891]
“La Reine Ysabeau”
“Sombre Récit Conteur Plus Sombre”
“L’Enjeu”
“Véra”
Pedro Antonio de Alarcón, El Amigo de la Muerte
“El Amigo de la Muerte” [or “The Strange Friend of Tito Gil”]
“The Tall Woman”
Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
“Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street”
William Beckford, Vathek
Vathek, a novella.
H.G. Wells, The Door in the Wall
“The Plattner Story”
“The Story of Late Mr. Elvesham”
“The Crystal Egg”
“The Country of the Blind”
“The Door in the Wall”
Pu Songling, The Tiger Guest [iii]
“The Buddhist Priest of Ch’ang-Ch’ing”
“In the Infernal Regions”
“The Magic Mirror”
“A Supernatural Wife”
“Examination for the Post of Guardian Angel”
“The Man Who Was Changed into a Crow”
“The Tiger Guest”
“Judge Lu”
“The Painted Skin”
“The Stream of Cash”
“The Invisible Priest”
“The Magic Path”
“The Wolf Dream”
“Dreaming Honors”
“The Tiger of Chao-Ch’ëng”
“Taking Revenge”
Arthur Machen, The Shining Pyramid
“The Novel of the Black Seal”
“The Novel of the White Powder”
“The Shining Pyramid”
Robert Louis Stevenson, The Isle of Voices [iv]
“The Bottle Imp”
“The Isle of Voices”
“Thrawn Janet”
“Markheim”
G.K. Chesterton, The Eye of Apollo
“The Duel of Dr Hirsch”
“The Queer Feet”
“The Honor of Israel Gow”
“The Eye of Apollo”
“The Three Horsemen of the Apocalypse” [c]
Jacques Cazotte, The Devil in Love
(A new translation is available from Dedalus Press of the UK.)
The Devil in Love, a novella.
“Jacquez Cazotte,” an essay by Gerard de Nerval
Franz Kafka, The Vulture
(While I’ve provided links to online translations, they’re somewhat suspect; probably better to check the Complete Short Stories.)
“The Hunger Artist”
“First Sorrow” [or “The Trapeze Artist”]
“The Vulture”
“A Common Confusion”
“Jackals and Arabs”
“The Great Wall of China”
“The City Coat of Arms”
“A Report to the Academy”
“Eleven Sons”
“Prometheus”
Edgar Allan Poe, The Purloined Letter
“The Purloined Letter”
“Ms. Found in a Bottle”
“The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar”
“The Man in the Crowd”
“The Pit and the Pendulum”
Leopoldo Lugones, The Pillar of Salt
(A new translation of Lugones’ stories, published by The Library of Latin America, is available at Powell’s.)
“The Pillar of Salt”
“Grandmother Julieta”
“The Horses of Abdera”
“An Inexplicable Phenomenon”
“Francesca”
“Rain of Fire: An Account of the Immolation of Gomorra”
Rudyard Kipling, The Wish House
(All the copyrighted stories are from Kipling’s Debits and Credits. They should be available in any thorough collection of his short fiction.)
“The Wish House” [c]
“A Sahib’s War”
“The Gardener” [c]
“The Madonna of the Trenches” [c]
“The Eye of Allah” [c]
The Thousand and One Nights, According to Galland
“Abdula, the Blind Beggar” [trans. 1811]
“Alladin’s Lamp” [ibid]
The Thousand and One Nights, According to Burton
“King Sinbad and His Falcon”
“The Adventures of Bululkia”
“The City of Brass”
“Tale of the Queen and the Serpent”
“Tale of the Husband and the Parrot”
“Tale of the Jewish Doctor”
“Tale of the Ensorcelled Prince”
“Tale of the Prince and the Ogres”
“Tale of the Wizir and the Wise Duban”
“The Fisherman and the Genii”
Henry James, The Friends of the Friends
“The Friends of the Friends”
“The Abasement of the Northmores”
“Owen Wingrave”
“The Private Life”
Voltaire, Micromegas
(A contemporary translation of these stories is available at Powell’s.)
“The Black and the White”
“The Two Conforters”
“The History of the Travels of Scaramentado”
“Memnon the Philosopher”
“Micromegas”
“The Princess of Babylon”
Charles Hinton, Scientific Romances
“A Plane World”
“What is the Fourth Dimension?”
“The Persian King”
Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Great Stone Face
“Mr. Higginbotham’s Catastrophe”
“The Great Stone Face”
“Earth’s Holocaust”
“The Minister’s Black Veil”
“Wakefield”
Lord Dunsany, The Country of Yann
“Where the Tides Ebb and Flow”
“The Sword and the Idol”
“Carcassonne”
“Idle Days on the Yann”
“The Field”
“The Beggars”
“The Bureau d’Echange de Maux”
“A Night at an Inn”
Saki, The Reticence of Lady Anne
“The Story-Teller”
“The Lumber Room”
“Gabriel-Ernest”
“Tobermory”
“The Background” [translated as “El Marco” (or “The Frame”)]
“The Unrest Cure”
“The Interlopers”
“Quail Seed”
“The Peace of Mowsle Barton”
“The Open Window”
“The Reticence of Lady Anne”
“Sredni Vashtar”
Russian Tales
“Lazarus,” Leonid Andreyev
“The Crocodile,” Fydor Doestoevsky
“The Death of Ivan Illitch,” Leo Tolstoy
Argentinean Tales
“El Calamar Opta por su Tinta,” Adolfo Bioy Casares
“Yzur,” Leopoldo Leones [See above.]
“A House Taken Over,” Julio Cortazar
“La Galera,” Manuel Mujica Láinez
“Los Objectos,” Sylvina Decampo
“El Profesor de Ajedrez,” Federico Peltzer
“Pudo Haberme Ocurrido,” Manuel Peyrou
“El Elegido,” Maria Esther Vasquez
J.L. Borges and Adolfo Bioy Casares, New Stories of H. Bustos Domecq
(Available at Amazon.com.)
The Book of Dreams (A Collection of Recounted Dreams)
List of Authors: Francisco de Quevedo y Villegas, Alexandra David-Néel, Alfonso X, Alfred de Vigny, Aloysius Bertrand, Antonio Machado, Bernabé Cobo, F. Sarmiento, Eliseo Díaz, Francisco Acevedo, François Rabelais, Franz Kafka, Friedrich Nietzsche, Gastón Padilla, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Gottfried Keller, H. Desvignes Doolittle, Herbert Allen Giles, Herodotus, H. Garro, Horace, Ibrahim Zahim [Ibrahim Bin Adham], James G. Frazer, Jorge Alberto Ferrando, Jorge Luis Borges, José Ferrater Mora, José María Eça de Queiroz, Joseph Addison, Juan José Arreola, Lewis Carroll, Lao Tzu, Louis Aragon, Luigi Pirandello, Luis de Góngora, Mircea Eliade, Mohammad Mossadegh, Nemer ibn el Barud [no Wiki entry; see Amazon comment field], O. Henry, Otto von Bismarck, Paul Groussac, Plato, Plutarch, Rabbi Nissim ben Reuven, Raymond de Becker, Rodericus Bartius, Roy Bartholomew, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Sebastián de Covarrubias Orozco, Thornton Wilder, Lucretius, Tsao Hsue Kin [Cao Xueqin], Ward Hill Lamon, William Butler Yeats, Wu Cheng’en, Giovanni Papini, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charles Baudelaire
Borges A to Z (A Compilation)
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1. Stories by Julio Cortázar (not sure if this refers to Hopscotch, Blow-Up and Other Stories, or neither)
2. & 3. The Apocryphal Gospels
4. Amerika and The Complete Stories by Franz Kafka
5. The Blue Cross: A Father Brown Mystery by G.K. Chesterton
6. & 7. The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
8. The Intelligence of Flowers by Maurice Maeterlinck
9. The Desert of the Tartars by Dino Buzzati
10. Peer Gynt and Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen
11. The Mandarin: And Other Stories by Eça de Queirós
12. The Jesuit Empire by Leopoldo Lugones
13. The Counterfeiters by André Gide
14. The Time Machine and The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells
15. The Greek Myths by Robert Graves
16. & 17. Demons by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
18. Mathematics and the Imagination by Edward Kasner
19. The Great God Brown and Other Plays, Strange Interlude, and Mourning Becomes Electra by Eugene O’Neill
20. Tales of Ise by Ariwara no Narihara
21. Benito Cereno, Billy Budd, and Bartleby, the Scrivener by Herman Melville
22. The Tragic Everyday, The Blind Pilot, and Words and Blood by Giovanni Papini
23. The Three Impostors
24. Songs of Songs tr. by Fray Luis de León
25. An Explanation of the Book of Job tr. by Fray Luis de León
26. The End of the Tether and Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
27. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
28. Essays & Dialogues by Oscar Wilde
29. Barbarian in Asia by Henri Michaux
30. The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse
31. Buried Alive by Arnold Bennett
32. On the Nature of Animals by Claudius Elianus
33. The Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen
34. The Temptation of St. Antony by Gustave Flaubert
35. Travels by Marco Polo
36. Imaginary lives by Marcel Schwob
37. Caesar and Cleopatra, Major Barbara, and Candide by George Bernard Shaw
38. Macus Brutus and The Hour of All by Francisco de Quevedo
39. The Red Redmaynes by Eden Phillpotts
40. Fear and Trembling by Søren Kierkegaard
41. The Golem by Gustav Meyrink
42. The Lesson of the Master, The Figure in the Carpet, and The Private Life by Henry James
43. & 44. The Nine Books of the History of Herodotus by Herdotus
45. Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo
46. Tales by Rudyard Kipling
47. Vathek by William Beckford
48. Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
49. The Professional Secret & Other Texts by Jean Cocteau
50. The Last Days of Emmanuel Kant and Other Stories by Thomas de Quincey
51. Prologue to the Work of Silverio Lanza by Ramon Gomez de la Serna
52. The Thousand and One Nights
53. New Arabian Nights and Markheim by Robert Louis Stevenson
54. Salvation of the Jews, The Blood of the Poor, and In the Darkness by Léon Bloy
55. The Bhagavad Gita and The Epic of Gilgamesh
56. Fantastic Stories by Juan José Arreola
57. Lady into Fox, A Man in the Zoo, and The Sailor’s Return by David Garnett
58. Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
59. Literary Criticism by Paul Groussac
60. The Idols by Manuel Mujica Láinez
61. The Book of Good Love by Juan Ruiz
62. Complete Poetry by William Blake
63. Above the Dark Circus by Hugh Walpole
64. Poetical Works by Ezequiel Martinez Estrada
65. Tales by Edgar Allan Poe
66. The Aeneid by Virgil
67. Stories by Voltaire
68. An Experiment with Time by J.W. Dunne
69. An Essay on Orlando Furioso by Atilio Momigliano
70. & 71. The Varieties of Religious Experience and The Study of Human Nature by William James
72. Egil’s Saga by Snorri Sturluson
73. The Book of the Dead
74. & 75. The Problem of Time by J. Alexander Gunn
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1. Auguste Villiers de l’Isle-Adam, “A Torture by Hope”
A contemporary and friend of Borges’ detested Baudelaire, Villiers de l’Isle-Adam was just the kind of down-at-heel aristocratic roué whom everyone imagines when thinking of French symbolist poetry. Greatly influenced by Poe, his Cruel Tales, from which the story above comes, is a collection of mostly mystical stories.
2. Pu Songling, “The Tiger Guest”
This 17th century Chinese writer was much-beloved by Borges, and his influence on the latter’s work is patently evident from a cursory scan of the titles in Pu’s collection, Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio.
3. Charles Hinton, “A Plane World”
Hinton, a British mathematician and sci-fi writer who was much interested in the fourth dimension and who coined the word “tesseract,” wrote speculative fiction deeply informed by physics and mathematics, often complete with diagrams, as in the above short work, one of nine pamphlets published as Scientific Romances. Hinton is mentioned in at least two of Borges’ stories.
4. Fyodor Dostoevsky, “The Crocodile: An Extraordinary Incident”
One does not generally think of Dostoevsky as a writer of “fantastic tales,” nor, for that matter, of short fiction. But Borges includes this little-known short in his volume of Russian Tales.
5. Arthur Machen, The Shining Pyramid
Briefly associated with British occultists like A.E. Waite and exerting a great deal of influence on Aleister Crowley, H.P. Lovecraft, and generations of genre writers, Welsh writer Arthur Machen was also a favorite of Borges.
6. Voltaire, “Micromegas”
Everyone is familiar with Voltaire the philosopher and satirist, but few know of his contribution to the development of science fiction with his seven-part story “Micromegas,” the tale of a 20,000 foot tall alien banished from his world for heresy.
7. Leopoldo Lugones, “Yzur”
This Argentinian writer was a major influence on Borges. Although he receives his own edited volume in the anthology (volume 19), this story appears in volume 30, “Argentinian Tales.”
• Evangelios apócrifos
• Franz Kafka: América / Relatos breves
• Gilbert Keith Chesterton: La cruz azul y otros cuentos
• Maurice Maeterlinck: La inteligencia de las flores
• Dino Buzzati: El desierto de los tártaros
• Henrik Ibsen: Peer Gynt / Hedda Glaber
• José María Eça de Queiroz: El mandarín
• Leopoldo Lugones: El imperio jesuítico
• André Gide: Los monederos falsos
• Herbert George Wells: La máquina del tiempo / El hombre invisible
• Robert Graves: Los mitos griegos
• Fiodor Dostoievski: Los demonios
• Edward Kasner & James Newman: Matemáticas e imaginación
• Eugene O’Neill: El gran dios Brown / Extraño interludio
• Herman Melville: Benito Cereno / Bily Budd / Bartleby, el escribiente
• Giovanni Papini: Lo trágico cotidiano / El piloto ciego / Palabras y sangre
• Arthur Machen: Los tres impostores
• Fray Luis de León: Cantar de cantares / Exposición del Libro de Job
• Joseph Conrad: El corazón de las tinieblas / Con la soga al cuello
• Oscar Wilde: Ensayos y diálogos
• Henri Michaux: Un bárbaro en Asia
• Hermann Hesse: El juego de los abalorios
• Arnold Bennett: Enterrado en vida
• Claudio Eliano: Historia de los animales
• Thorstein Veblen: Teoría de la clase ociosa
• Gustave Flaubert: Las tentaciones de San Antonio
• Marco Polo: La descripción del mundo
• Marcel Schwob: Vidas imaginarias
• George Bernard Shaw: César y Cleopatra / La comandante Bárbara / Cándida
• Francisco de Quevedo: La Fortuna con seso y la hora de todos / Marco Bruto
• Eden Phillpotts: Los rojos Redmayne
• Sóren Kierkegaard: Temor y temblor
• Gustav Meyrink: El Golem
• Henry James: La lección del maestro / La vida privada / La figura en la alfombra
• Heródoto: Los nueve libros de Historia
• Juan Rulfo: Pedro Páramo
• Rudyard Kipling: Relatos
• Daniel Defoe: Moll Flanders
• Jean Cocteau: El secreto profesional y otros textos
• Thomas de Quincey: Los últimos días de Emmanuel Kant y otros escritos
• Ramón Gómez de la Serna: Prólogo a la obra de Silverio Lanza
• Antoine Galland: Las mil y una noches (selección)
• Robert Louis Stevenson: Las nuevas noches árabes
• León Bloy: La salvación por los judíos / La sangre del pobre / En las tinieblas
• Bhagavad-Gita
• Poema de Gilgamesh
• Juan José Arreola: Cuentos fantásticos
• David Garnett: De dama a zorro / Un hombre en el zoológico / La vuelta del marinero
• Jonathan Swift: Viajes de Gulliver
• Paul Groussac: Crítica literaria
• Manuel Mujica Láinez: Los ídolos
• Juan Ruiz: Libro de buen amor
• William Blake: Poesía completa
• Hugh Walpole: En la plaza oscura
• Ezequiel Martínez Estrada: Obra poética
• Edgar Allan Poe: Cuentos
• Publio Virgilio Marón: La Eneida
• Voltaire: Cuentos
• J. W. Dunne: Un experimento con el tiempo
• Attilio Momigliano: Ensayo sobre el Orlando Furioso
• William James: Las variedades de la experiencia religiosa: Estudio sobre la naturaleza humana
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Jack London, The Concentric Deaths
“The Minions of Midas”
“The Shadow and the Flash”
“Lost Face”
“The House of Mapuhi”
“The Law of Life”
Jorge Luis Borges, August 26, 1983
(All but the last three articles are available in Penguin’s Borges: The Collected Fictions.)
“August 26, 1983″
“The Rose of Peracelsus”
“Blue Tigers”
“Shakespeare’s Memory”
An Interview with Borges, with Maria Esther Vasquez
A Chronology of J.L. Borges’ Life, from Siruela Magazine
The Ruler and Labyrinth: An Approximation of J.L Borges’ Bibliography, by Fernandez Ferrer
Gustav Meyrink, Cardinal Napellus[ii]
“Der Kardinal Napellus”
“J.H. Obereits Besuch bei den Zeitegeln”
“Der Vier Mondbrüder”
Léon Bloy, Disagreeable Tales
[All available in a translation published just this year]
“La Taie d’Argent”
“Les Captifs de Longjumeau”
“Une Idée Médiocre”
“Une Martyre”
“La Plus Belle Trouvaille de Caïn”
“On n’est pas Parfait”
“La Religion de M. Pleur”
“Terrible Châtiment d’un Dentiste”
“La Tisane”
“Tout Ce Que Tu Voudras!”
“La Dernière Cuite”
“Le Vieux de la Maison”
Giovanni Papini, The Mirror That Fled
“Il Giorno Non Restituito”
“Due Immagini in una Vasca”
“Lo Specchio che Fugge”
“Storia Completamente Assurda”
“Il Mendicante di Anime”
“Una Morte Mentale”
“Non Voglio Più Essere Ciò che Sono”
“Chi Sei?”
“Il Suicida Sostituto”
“L’ultima Visita del Gentiluomo Malato”
Oscar Wilde, Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime
“Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime”
“The Canterville Ghost”
“The Selfish Giant”
“The Happy Prince”
“The Nightingale and the Rose”
Villiers de L’Isle-Adam, El Convidado de las Últimas Festivas
(Used copies of the 1985 Oxford U. Press translation of Cruel Tales (the collection in which these stories are published) are available online.)
“L’Aventure de Tsé-i-la”
“Le Convive des Dernières Fêtes”
“A Torture By Hope” [trans. 1891]
“La Reine Ysabeau”
“Sombre Récit Conteur Plus Sombre”
“L’Enjeu”
“Véra”
Pedro Antonio de Alarcón, El Amigo de la Muerte
“El Amigo de la Muerte” [or “The Strange Friend of Tito Gil”]
“The Tall Woman”
Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
“Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street”
William Beckford, Vathek
Vathek, a novella.
H.G. Wells, The Door in the Wall
“The Plattner Story”
“The Story of Late Mr. Elvesham”
“The Crystal Egg”
“The Country of the Blind”
“The Door in the Wall”
Pu Songling, The Tiger Guest [iii]
“The Buddhist Priest of Ch’ang-Ch’ing”
“In the Infernal Regions”
“The Magic Mirror”
“A Supernatural Wife”
“Examination for the Post of Guardian Angel”
“The Man Who Was Changed into a Crow”
“The Tiger Guest”
“Judge Lu”
“The Painted Skin”
“The Stream of Cash”
“The Invisible Priest”
“The Magic Path”
“The Wolf Dream”
“Dreaming Honors”
“The Tiger of Chao-Ch’ëng”
“Taking Revenge”
Arthur Machen, The Shining Pyramid
“The Novel of the Black Seal”
“The Novel of the White Powder”
“The Shining Pyramid”
Robert Louis Stevenson, The Isle of Voices [iv]
“The Bottle Imp”
“The Isle of Voices”
“Thrawn Janet”
“Markheim”
G.K. Chesterton, The Eye of Apollo
“The Duel of Dr Hirsch”
“The Queer Feet”
“The Honor of Israel Gow”
“The Eye of Apollo”
“The Three Horsemen of the Apocalypse” [c]
Jacques Cazotte, The Devil in Love
(A new translation is available from Dedalus Press of the UK.)
The Devil in Love, a novella.
“Jacquez Cazotte,” an essay by Gerard de Nerval
Franz Kafka, The Vulture
(While I’ve provided links to online translations, they’re somewhat suspect; probably better to check the Complete Short Stories.)
“The Hunger Artist”
“First Sorrow” [or “The Trapeze Artist”]
“The Vulture”
“A Common Confusion”
“Jackals and Arabs”
“The Great Wall of China”
“The City Coat of Arms”
“A Report to the Academy”
“Eleven Sons”
“Prometheus”
Edgar Allan Poe, The Purloined Letter
“The Purloined Letter”
“Ms. Found in a Bottle”
“The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar”
“The Man in the Crowd”
“The Pit and the Pendulum”
Leopoldo Lugones, The Pillar of Salt
(A new translation of Lugones’ stories, published by The Library of Latin America, is available at Powell’s.)
“The Pillar of Salt”
“Grandmother Julieta”
“The Horses of Abdera”
“An Inexplicable Phenomenon”
“Francesca”
“Rain of Fire: An Account of the Immolation of Gomorra”
Rudyard Kipling, The Wish House
(All the copyrighted stories are from Kipling’s Debits and Credits. They should be available in any thorough collection of his short fiction.)
“The Wish House” [c]
“A Sahib’s War”
“The Gardener” [c]
“The Madonna of the Trenches” [c]
“The Eye of Allah” [c]
The Thousand and One Nights, According to Galland
“Abdula, the Blind Beggar” [trans. 1811]
“Alladin’s Lamp” [ibid]
The Thousand and One Nights, According to Burton
“King Sinbad and His Falcon”
“The Adventures of Bululkia”
“The City of Brass”
“Tale of the Queen and the Serpent”
“Tale of the Husband and the Parrot”
“Tale of the Jewish Doctor”
“Tale of the Ensorcelled Prince”
“Tale of the Prince and the Ogres”
“Tale of the Wizir and the Wise Duban”
“The Fisherman and the Genii”
Henry James, The Friends of the Friends
“The Friends of the Friends”
“The Abasement of the Northmores”
“Owen Wingrave”
“The Private Life”
Voltaire, Micromegas
(A contemporary translation of these stories is available at Powell’s.)
“The Black and the White”
“The Two Conforters”
“The History of the Travels of Scaramentado”
“Memnon the Philosopher”
“Micromegas”
“The Princess of Babylon”
Charles Hinton, Scientific Romances
“A Plane World”
“What is the Fourth Dimension?”
“The Persian King”
Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Great Stone Face
“Mr. Higginbotham’s Catastrophe”
“The Great Stone Face”
“Earth’s Holocaust”
“The Minister’s Black Veil”
“Wakefield”
Lord Dunsany, The Country of Yann
“Where the Tides Ebb and Flow”
“The Sword and the Idol”
“Carcassonne”
“Idle Days on the Yann”
“The Field”
“The Beggars”
“The Bureau d’Echange de Maux”
“A Night at an Inn”
Saki, The Reticence of Lady Anne
“The Story-Teller”
“The Lumber Room”
“Gabriel-Ernest”
“Tobermory”
“The Background” [translated as “El Marco” (or “The Frame”)]
“The Unrest Cure”
“The Interlopers”
“Quail Seed”
“The Peace of Mowsle Barton”
“The Open Window”
“The Reticence of Lady Anne”
“Sredni Vashtar”
Russian Tales
“Lazarus,” Leonid Andreyev
“The Crocodile,” Fydor Doestoevsky
“The Death of Ivan Illitch,” Leo Tolstoy
Argentinean Tales
“El Calamar Opta por su Tinta,” Adolfo Bioy Casares
“Yzur,” Leopoldo Leones [See above.]
“A House Taken Over,” Julio Cortazar
“La Galera,” Manuel Mujica Láinez
“Los Objectos,” Sylvina Decampo
“El Profesor de Ajedrez,” Federico Peltzer
“Pudo Haberme Ocurrido,” Manuel Peyrou
“El Elegido,” Maria Esther Vasquez
J.L. Borges and Adolfo Bioy Casares, New Stories of H. Bustos Domecq
(Available at Amazon.com.)
The Book of Dreams (A Collection of Recounted Dreams)
List of Authors: Francisco de Quevedo y Villegas, Alexandra David-Néel, Alfonso X, Alfred de Vigny, Aloysius Bertrand, Antonio Machado, Bernabé Cobo, F. Sarmiento, Eliseo Díaz, Francisco Acevedo, François Rabelais, Franz Kafka, Friedrich Nietzsche, Gastón Padilla, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Gottfried Keller, H. Desvignes Doolittle, Herbert Allen Giles, Herodotus, H. Garro, Horace, Ibrahim Zahim [Ibrahim Bin Adham], James G. Frazer, Jorge Alberto Ferrando, Jorge Luis Borges, José Ferrater Mora, José María Eça de Queiroz, Joseph Addison, Juan José Arreola, Lewis Carroll, Lao Tzu, Louis Aragon, Luigi Pirandello, Luis de Góngora, Mircea Eliade, Mohammad Mossadegh, Nemer ibn el Barud [no Wiki entry; see Amazon comment field], O. Henry, Otto von Bismarck, Paul Groussac, Plato, Plutarch, Rabbi Nissim ben Reuven, Raymond de Becker, Rodericus Bartius, Roy Bartholomew, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Sebastián de Covarrubias Orozco, Thornton Wilder, Lucretius, Tsao Hsue Kin [Cao Xueqin], Ward Hill Lamon, William Butler Yeats, Wu Cheng’en, Giovanni Papini, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charles Baudelaire
Borges A to Z (A Compilation)
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1. Stories by Julio Cortázar (not sure if this refers to Hopscotch, Blow-Up and Other Stories, or neither)
2. & 3. The Apocryphal Gospels
4. Amerika and The Complete Stories by Franz Kafka
5. The Blue Cross: A Father Brown Mystery by G.K. Chesterton
6. & 7. The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
8. The Intelligence of Flowers by Maurice Maeterlinck
9. The Desert of the Tartars by Dino Buzzati
10. Peer Gynt and Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen
11. The Mandarin: And Other Stories by Eça de Queirós
12. The Jesuit Empire by Leopoldo Lugones
13. The Counterfeiters by André Gide
14. The Time Machine and The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells
15. The Greek Myths by Robert Graves
16. & 17. Demons by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
18. Mathematics and the Imagination by Edward Kasner
19. The Great God Brown and Other Plays, Strange Interlude, and Mourning Becomes Electra by Eugene O’Neill
20. Tales of Ise by Ariwara no Narihara
21. Benito Cereno, Billy Budd, and Bartleby, the Scrivener by Herman Melville
22. The Tragic Everyday, The Blind Pilot, and Words and Blood by Giovanni Papini
23. The Three Impostors
24. Songs of Songs tr. by Fray Luis de León
25. An Explanation of the Book of Job tr. by Fray Luis de León
26. The End of the Tether and Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
27. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
28. Essays & Dialogues by Oscar Wilde
29. Barbarian in Asia by Henri Michaux
30. The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse
31. Buried Alive by Arnold Bennett
32. On the Nature of Animals by Claudius Elianus
33. The Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen
34. The Temptation of St. Antony by Gustave Flaubert
35. Travels by Marco Polo
36. Imaginary lives by Marcel Schwob
37. Caesar and Cleopatra, Major Barbara, and Candide by George Bernard Shaw
38. Macus Brutus and The Hour of All by Francisco de Quevedo
39. The Red Redmaynes by Eden Phillpotts
40. Fear and Trembling by Søren Kierkegaard
41. The Golem by Gustav Meyrink
42. The Lesson of the Master, The Figure in the Carpet, and The Private Life by Henry James
43. & 44. The Nine Books of the History of Herodotus by Herdotus
45. Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo
46. Tales by Rudyard Kipling
47. Vathek by William Beckford
48. Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
49. The Professional Secret & Other Texts by Jean Cocteau
50. The Last Days of Emmanuel Kant and Other Stories by Thomas de Quincey
51. Prologue to the Work of Silverio Lanza by Ramon Gomez de la Serna
52. The Thousand and One Nights
53. New Arabian Nights and Markheim by Robert Louis Stevenson
54. Salvation of the Jews, The Blood of the Poor, and In the Darkness by Léon Bloy
55. The Bhagavad Gita and The Epic of Gilgamesh
56. Fantastic Stories by Juan José Arreola
57. Lady into Fox, A Man in the Zoo, and The Sailor’s Return by David Garnett
58. Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
59. Literary Criticism by Paul Groussac
60. The Idols by Manuel Mujica Láinez
61. The Book of Good Love by Juan Ruiz
62. Complete Poetry by William Blake
63. Above the Dark Circus by Hugh Walpole
64. Poetical Works by Ezequiel Martinez Estrada
65. Tales by Edgar Allan Poe
66. The Aeneid by Virgil
67. Stories by Voltaire
68. An Experiment with Time by J.W. Dunne
69. An Essay on Orlando Furioso by Atilio Momigliano
70. & 71. The Varieties of Religious Experience and The Study of Human Nature by William James
72. Egil’s Saga by Snorri Sturluson
73. The Book of the Dead
74. & 75. The Problem of Time by J. Alexander Gunn
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1. Auguste Villiers de l’Isle-Adam, “A Torture by Hope”
A contemporary and friend of Borges’ detested Baudelaire, Villiers de l’Isle-Adam was just the kind of down-at-heel aristocratic roué whom everyone imagines when thinking of French symbolist poetry. Greatly influenced by Poe, his Cruel Tales, from which the story above comes, is a collection of mostly mystical stories.
2. Pu Songling, “The Tiger Guest”
This 17th century Chinese writer was much-beloved by Borges, and his influence on the latter’s work is patently evident from a cursory scan of the titles in Pu’s collection, Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio.
3. Charles Hinton, “A Plane World”
Hinton, a British mathematician and sci-fi writer who was much interested in the fourth dimension and who coined the word “tesseract,” wrote speculative fiction deeply informed by physics and mathematics, often complete with diagrams, as in the above short work, one of nine pamphlets published as Scientific Romances. Hinton is mentioned in at least two of Borges’ stories.
4. Fyodor Dostoevsky, “The Crocodile: An Extraordinary Incident”
One does not generally think of Dostoevsky as a writer of “fantastic tales,” nor, for that matter, of short fiction. But Borges includes this little-known short in his volume of Russian Tales.
5. Arthur Machen, The Shining Pyramid
Briefly associated with British occultists like A.E. Waite and exerting a great deal of influence on Aleister Crowley, H.P. Lovecraft, and generations of genre writers, Welsh writer Arthur Machen was also a favorite of Borges.
6. Voltaire, “Micromegas”
Everyone is familiar with Voltaire the philosopher and satirist, but few know of his contribution to the development of science fiction with his seven-part story “Micromegas,” the tale of a 20,000 foot tall alien banished from his world for heresy.
7. Leopoldo Lugones, “Yzur”
This Argentinian writer was a major influence on Borges. Although he receives his own edited volume in the anthology (volume 19), this story appears in volume 30, “Argentinian Tales.”
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