Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface to the Revised Edition ix
4. Preface to the 1981 Edition xiii
5. Acknowledgments xvii
6. Note on Page References xix
7. Chronology xxi
8. Part I Borges’s Worlds
9. 1 Buenos Aires and Beyond 1
10. 2 A Sort of Life, a Special Mind 14
11. 3 What Borges Did for Prose Fiction 42
12. Part II Borges’s Fictions
13. 4 The Apprentice Fiction Maker 63
14. 5 Ficciones I 77
15. 6 Ficciones II 109
16. 7 El Aleph I 142
17. 8 El Aleph II 181
18. 9 El Aleph III 209
19. Part III Borges’s Place in Literature
20. 10 Dreamtigers and Later Works 247
21. 11 Literature and Politics North and South 268
22. 12 Borges as Argentine Author 286
23. Abbreviations 297
24. Notes 299
25. Selected Bibliography 309
26. Index 319