Borges’ stories have a deceptively simple, almost laconic style. In maddeningly ingenious stories that play with the very form of the short story, Borges returns again and again to his themes: dreams, labyrinths, mirrors, infinite libraries, the manipulations of chance, gaucho knife-fighters, transparent tigers and the elusive nature of identity itself.

Format: Paperback
Published: UK, 2000
Publisher: Penguin
Pages: 216
Language: English
ISBN 13: 9780241540527
ISBN 10: 0241540526