Table of Contents

1. Contexts 2. Reading the Short Stories - The Labyrinthine - The Borgesian - Infinity and One - Fictions 3. Reception and Influence 4. Annotated Bibliography Index

Promotional Information

A Readers Guide to ten of Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges' best-known and most widely studied short stories.

About the Author

Rex Butler is Professor of Art History at the School of Art, Design and Architecture, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. His previous publications include Jean Baudrillard: The Defence of the Real (1999).

Reviews

‘This is the most up-to-date study thus far of Borges's place in contemporary culture. The influence exerted by the Argentine master on literature and criticism stretches far and wide over three continents, and Rex Butler does a fine job of tracing in detail a rich and ongoing legacy.' - Gene H. Bell-Villada, Williams College, USA, author of Borges and His Fiction: A Guide to His Mind and Art