A personal anthology

Prologue --

Death and the compass --

The plot --

The south --

A page to commemorate Colonel Suárez, Victor at Junín --

The dead man --

Matthew 25:30 --

Funes, the Memorious --

A new refutation of time --

Limits --

Limits --

The circular ruins --

Chess --

The Golem --

Inferno I, 32 --

The other tiger --

A yellow rose --

Baltasar Gracián --

To an old poet --

Parable of the palace --

The wall and the books --

The enigma of Edward FitzGerald --

Ariosto and the Arabs --

Averroës' search --

A soldier of Urbina --

The maker --

Everything and nothing --

From someone to no one --

Forms of a legend --

The Zahir --

The Aleph --

The cyclical night --

Allusion to a ghost of the eighteen-nineties --

The tango --

Biography of Tadeo Isidoro Cruz --

The end --

Story of the warrior and the captive --

The captive --

Paradiso XXXI, 108 --

Luke 23 --

The witness --

The modesty of history --

The secret miracle --

Conjectural poem --

The gifts --

The moon --

The art of poetry --

Borges and I --

Poem written in a copy of Beowulf --

Editor's epilogue.