Borges invented other authors besides Ménard and his bio-bibliographical narrator. Borges and his life-long friend Adolfo Bioy Casares came up with Honorio Bustos Domecq, a fictitious detective under whose name they wrote numerous short stories and through whom they introduced other fictitious authors...
the couple who entertained Borges nightly at their apartment. Particularly fascinating is Manguel’s portrait of the mysterious Silvina Ocampo; whose sardonic stories and “black humor” were always too “cruel” for Borges’ taste:
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Curiously, Williamson displays little interest in Borges as a writer, and readers expecting to learn more about the “stories behind the stories” will be sorely disappointed. Too many important works are produced out of thin air, with Williamson clearly more interested in their psychological import...
During this time, he and another writer, Adolfo Bioy Casares, jointly wrote detective stories under the pseudonym H. Bustos Domecq (combining ancestral names of the two writers’ families), which were published in 1942 as Seis problemas para Don Isidro Parodi (Six Problems for Don Isidro ...
“When I read the line I thought to myself that I didn’t know anyone was allowed to write things like that. If I had known, I would have started writing a long time ago. So I immediately started writing short stories.” That Kafka had such a liberating influence is especially striking...
Stories of a very few pages in length, effectively portraits, cannot easily be evaluated by the same set of criteria—plot, characterization, setting, language—one applies to longer works. That said, we can still look at some of those aspects; language use in particular remains a constant cr...
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stories. Other titles of at least indirect interest includeManual de zoologia fantastica(1957Mexico; exp vtEl libro do los seres imaginarios1967; the latter trans Norman Thomas di Giovanni and Borges asThe Book of Imaginary Beings1969; new trans Andrew Hurley2005), a bestiary. The title story ...
On Exactitude in Science is a one-paragraph short story written in 1946 by Jorge Luis Borges, about the map–territory relation, written in the form of a literary forgery. Open Culture, openculture.com