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"Funes the Memorious" (original Spanish title Funes el memorioso) [1] is a fantasy short story by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986). First published in La Nación of June 1942, it appeared in the 1944 anthology Ficciones, part two (Artifices). The first English translation appeared in 1954 in Avon Modern Writing No. 2.
Adela Fernández y Fernández [a] (6 December 1942 – 18 August 2013) [1] was a Mexican folk writer and teacher of theater. Fernández left behind an important bibliography composed of 14 books of literature, poetry, anthropology and Mexican history, two short films of experimental cinema, and numerous plays.
Elena de la Garza (Mama Elena), the novel's antagonist; Tita's widowed, domineering mother. Gertrudis de la Garza, Tita's older sister, Mama Elena's middle (and illegitimate) daughter. Rosaura de la Garza, Tita's eldest sister, Mama Elena's eldest daughter. Dr. John Brown, the widowed family doctor who falls in love with Tita. Their engagement ...
"The Sect of the Phoenix" (original Spanish title: "La secta del Fénix") is a short story by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges, first published in Sur in 1952. It was included in the 1956 edition of Ficciones, part two (Artifices). The title has also been translated as "The Cult of the Phoenix."
"Man on Pink Corner" (original Spanish title: "Hombre de la Esquina Rosada") is a short story by Argentine writer and poet Jorge Luis Borges.It is the first of several stories he wrote concerning duels between knife-fighters, which Borges recognized as one of his archetypal themes.
"The Circular Ruins" (Spanish: Las ruinas circulares) is a short story by Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges. First published in the literary journal Sur in December 1940, it was included in the 1941 collection The Garden of Forking Paths (Spanish: El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan) and the 1944 collection Ficciones.
Borges' fictitious writer Nils Runeberg presents to the world three versions of Judas Iscariot using his two books.. In the first version of Kristus och Judas, Runeberg says that it was Judas who was the reflection of Jesus in the human world, and as Jesus was our savior sent from heaven, Judas took up the onus of being the human who led Jesus down the path of redemption.
El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan. Buenos Aires, Sur, 1941 "El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan." "The Garden of Forking Paths" Artifices (1944) "Funes el memorioso" "Funes the Memorious" La Nación. Buenos Aires, 7 May 1942 "La forma de la espada" "The Shape of the Sword" La Nación. 27 July 1942 "Tema del traidor y del héroe"