A new edition of a classic work by a late forefront Argentinean writer features the 1964 augmented original text and is complemented by a biographical essay, a tribute to the writer's body of work, and a chronology of his life. Reprint. An Invitation by William Gibson ix Introduction by James E. Irby xiii Fictions Tl n, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius 3 The Garden of Forking Paths 19 The Lottery in Babylon 30 Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote 36 The Circular Ruins 45 The Library of Babel 51 Funes the Memorious 59 The Shape of the Sword 67 Theme of the Traitor and the Hero 72 Death and the Compass 76 The Secret Miracle 88 Three Versions of Judas 95 The Sect of the Phoenix 101 The Immortal 105 The Theologians 119 Story of the Warrior and the Captive 127 Emma Zunz 132 The House of Asterion 138 Deutsches Requiem 141 Averroes' Search 148 The Zahir 156 The Waiting 165 The God's Script 169 Essays The Argentine Writer and Tradition 177 The Wall and the Books 186 The Fearful Sphere of Pascal 189 Partial Magic in the Quixote 193 Val as Symbol 197 Kafka and His Precursors 199 Avatars of the Tortoise 202 The Mirror of Enigmas 209 A Note on (toward) Bernard Shaw 213 A New Refutation of Time 217 Parables Inferno, 1, 32 237 Paradiso, XXXI, 108 238 Ragnar k 240 Parable of Cervantes and the Quixote 242 The Witness 243 A Problem 244 Borges and I 246 Everything and Nothing 248 Elegy 251 Chronology 253