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This is a bibliography of works by Jorge Luis Borges.

Original book-length publications

This list follows the chronology of original (typically Spanish-language) publication in books, based in part on the rather comprehensive (but incomplete) bibliography online at Borges Center, University of Iowa. The following list focuses on book-length publication of original work (including collaborative work): it does not include individual short stories, poems, and translations published in magazines, nor does it include books (such as anthologies of fantasy and of Argentine literature) that Borges edited or co-edited. It also excludes several chapbooks, privately printed editions, etc. of under 50 pages each and does not attempt to identify first publication dates of individual stories, poems, etc. ISBNs refer to recent editions, not original publications. (Many English-language titles and ISBNs still missing. Some of the volumes might be better classified in terms of genre.)

  • Fervor de Buenos Aires, 1923, poetry.
  • Inquisiciones, 1925, essays. English title: Inquiries.
  • Luna de Enfrente, 1925, poetry.
  • El tamaño de mi esperanza, 1925, essays.
  • El idioma de los argentinos, 1928, essays.
  • Cuaderno San Martín, 1929, poetry.
  • Evaristo Carriego, 1930, a tightly linked collection of essays on the Argentine poet Evaristo Carriego. An expanded edition was published in 1955, with essays on other Argentine topics (ISBN 84-206-3345-3).
  • Discusión, 1932, essays and literary criticism. An expanded version was published in 1957.
  • Historia universal de la infamia, 1935, short non-fictional stories and literary forgeries (ISBN 84-206-3314-3). The edition of 1958 adds a prologue and several more literary forgeries. English title: A Universal History of Infamy, 1972, (ISBN 84-206-1309-6). Several web sources mis-attribute this as Historia universal de la infancia (which would be A Universal History of Childhood).
  • Historia de la eternidad, 1936, essays.
  • El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan, 1941, short stories. English title: Garden of Forking Paths, published as a section of Ficciones.
  • Seis problemas para don Isidro Parodi, 1942, comic detective fiction, written with Adolfo Bioy Casares, originally published under the name H. Bustos Domecq. English title: Six Problems for Don Isidro Parodi, 1981. (ISBN 0-525-48035-8)
  • Poemas : 1922-1943, 1943, poetry. This was a complete republication of his three previous volumes of poetry, plus some additional poems. Some of the republished poems were modified for this edition.
  • Ficciones, 1944, short stories, an expanded version of El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan, 1941. The 1956 edition adds 3 stories. US title Ficciones, 1962 (ISBN 0-394-17244-2). Also published in UK as "Fictions", in a translation by Andrew Hurley. (ISBN 0-14-118384-5)
  • Un modelo para la muerte, 1946, detective fiction, written with Adolfo Bioy Casares, originally published under the name B. Suarez Lynch. The original publication was a private printing of only 300 copies. The first commercial printing was in 1970.
  • Dos fantasías memorables, 1946, two fantasy stories, written with Adolfo Bioy Casares. Like Un modelo para la muerte, the original publication was a private printing of 300 copies, with no commercial printing until 1970.
  • El Aleph, 1949, essays and short stories. A slightly expanded edition was published in 1957. English title: The Aleph and Other Stories 1933-1969 (ISBN 0-525-05154-6). The English-language edition is an incomplete translation of the Spanish-language book, but contains an autobiographical essay originally written for The New Yorker. Borges's Spanish-language Autobiografía (2000) is simply a translation of this English-language essay into Spanish.
  • Aspectos de la poesía gauchesca, 1950, literary criticism.
  • Antiguas literaturas germánicas, 1951, literary criticism, written with Delia Ingenieros.
  • La muerte y la brújula, 1951, short stories selected from earlier published volumes.
  • Otras inquisiciones 1937-1952, 1952, essays and literary criticism. English title: Other Inquisitions 1937-1952, 1964 (ISBN 0-292-76002-7).
  • Historia de la eternidad, 1953, essays, short stories, and literary criticism.
  • El "Martín Fierro", 1953, essays on the epic Argentine poem Martín Fierro, written with Margarita Guerrero, ISBN 84-206-1933-7.
  • Poemas : 1923-1953, 1954, poetry. Essentially the same as Poemas : 1922-1943, but with the addition of a few newer poems.
  • Los orilleros; El paraíso de los creyentes, 1955, 2 screenplays, written with Adolfo Bioy Casares.
  • Leopoldo Lugones, 1955, literary criticism, written with Betina Edelborg.
  • La hermana de Eloísa, 1955, short stories. This slim book consists of two stories by Borges, two by Luisa Mercedes Levinson, and the title story, on which they collaborated.
  • Manual de zoología fantástica, 1957, short pieces about imaginary beings, written with Margarita Guerrero.
  • Libro del cielo y del infierno, 1960, essays and one poem, written with Adolfo Bioy Casares. Some of this material comes from Antiguas literaturas germánicas, 1951.
  • El Hacedor, 1960, poetry, first published as the ninth volume in his Obras completas (Complete Works), a project which had begun in 1953. English title: Dreamtigers, 1964. (ISBN ISBN 0-292-71549-8)
  • Antología Personal, 1961, essays, poetry, literary criticism, some of it not previously published in book form. English title: A Personal Anthology, 1967 (ISBN 0-330-23345-9).
  • El lenguaje de Buenos Aires, 1963, long essays, written with José Edmundo Clemente. The 1968 edition adds several new essays by Clemente.
  • Introducción a la literatura inglesa, 1965, literary criticism, written with María Esther Vázquez.
  • Para las seis cuerdas, 1965, lyrics for tangos and milongas. An expanded edition came out in 1970, but all of the poems in either edition can also be found in El otro, el mismo, 1969. Ástor Piazzolla composed the music for these tangos and milongas, the result of which was a record praised by Borges.
  • Literaturas germánicas medievales, 1966, literary criticism, written with María Esther Vázquez. This is a reworking of Antiguas literaturas germánicas, 1951.
  • Crónicas de Bustos Domecq, literary forgery/essays, 1967, written with Adolfo Bioy Casares. An odd book: deliberately pompous critical essays by an imaginary author. English title: Chronicles of Bustos Domecq, 1976. (ISBN 0-525-47548-6)
  • Introducción a la literatura norteamericana, 1967, literary criticism, written with Esther Zemborain de Torres. English title: An Introduction to American Literature, 1971, (ISBN 0-8052-0403-2).
  • El libro de los seres imaginarios, 1967, expansion of Manual de zoología fantástica, 1957, written with Marguerita Guerrero. English title: The Book of Imaginary Beings, 1969 (ISBN 0-14-018023-0); the English-language volume is actually a further expansion of the work.
  • Conversations with Jorge Luis Borges, 1968, with Richard Burgin, originally published in English. ISBN 1-57806-076-1.
  • Nueva Antología Personal, 1968, essays, poetry, literary criticism, some of it not previously published in book form. This includes quite a few previously unpublished poems, and has very little intersection with Antología Personal, 1961. English title New Personal Anthology.
  • Museo, 1969?, poetry (ISBN 950-04-2413-4).
  • Elogio de la Sombra, 1969, poetry. English title In Praise of Darkness, 1974. (ISBN 0-525-03635-0)
  • El otro, el mismo, 1969, poetry, including a complete reprint of Para las seis cuerdas, 1965.
  • El informe de Brodie, short stories, 1970. English title: Dr. Brodie's Report, 1971.
  • El congreso, 1971, essays.
  • Nuevos Cuentos de Bustos Domecq, (1972? Borges, a Reader says 1977), written with Adolfo Bioy Casares.
  • El oro de los tigres, 1972, poetry. English title: The Gold of the Tigers, Selected Later Poems, 1977. The English-language volume also includes poems from La Rosa Profunda.
  • El libro de arena, 1975, short stories, English title: The Book of Sand, 1977.
  • La Rosa Profunda, 1975, poetry.
  • La moneda de hierro, 1976, poetry.
  • Diálogos, 1976, conversations between Borges and Ernesto Sabato, transcribed by Orlando Barone.
  • ¿Que es el budismo?, 1976, lectures, written with Alicia Jurado, (ISBN 84-206-3874-9).
  • Historia de la noche, 1977, poetry.
  • Prólogos con un prólogo de prólogos, 1977, a collection of numerous book prologues Borges had written over the years.
  • Borges El Memorioso, 1977, conversations with Antonio Carrizo (ISBN 968-16-1351-1). The title is a play on Borges's story "Funes El Memorioso", known in English as "Funes, the Memorious".
  • Rosa y Azul: La rosa de Paracelso; Tigres azules, 1977, (short stories).
  • Borges, oral, 1979, lectures.
  • Siete noches, 1980, lectures. English title, Seven Nights.
  • La cifra, 1981, poetry.
  • Nueve ensayos dantescos, 1982, essays on Dante.
  • Un argumento, 1983, (genre?).
  • Veinticinco de Agosto de 1983 y otros cuentos, 1983, short stories (also entitled La memoria de Shakespeare, English: Shakespeare's Memory)
  • Altas, 1984, stories and essays, written with María Kodama.
  • Los conjurados, 1985, poetry.
  • Textos cautivos, 1986, literary criticism, book reviews, short biographies of authors, translations. This book collects the columns Borges wrote in the popular Buenos Aires magazine El Hogar 1936-1939.
  • This Craft of Verse, 2000, lectures, edited by Călin-Andrei Mihăilescu, a collection of six originally English-language lectures by Borges dating from 1967-1968, transcribed from recently discovered tapes. (ISBN 0-674-00820-0).

There are also 1953, 1974, 1984, and 1989 Obras completas (complete works) with varying degrees of completeness and a 1981 Obras completas en coloboración (complete collaborative works).

Several bibliographies also choose to include a collection of previously published essays, published in 1971 under the name Narraciones.

Some web-based lists misattribute El Caudillo, (1921 novel), to Borges. It was actually written by his father, also a Jorge Borges.

Book-length interviews in English

  • Conversations with Jorge Luis Borges, 1969, by Richard Burgin
  • Borges on Writing, 1973, edited by Norman Thomas diGiovanni, Daniel Halpern, and Frank MacShane

Screenplays

  • Los Orilleros (The Hoodlums) (published in Spanish 1955) (with Adolfo Bioy Casares)
  • El Paraíso de los Creyentes ("The Paradise of Believers") (published in Spanish 1955) (with Adolfo Bioy Casares)
  • Invasión, 1968, directed by Hugo Santiago.

Other works of note

  • Los mejores cuentos policiales, 1943, with Adolfo Bioy Casares. Primarily translations of English-language detective fiction, plus one originally French-language piece and some Spanish-language pieces (including Borges's own "La muerte y la brújula").
  • El compadrito: su destino, sus barrios, su música 1945, anthology of Argentine writers, including articles and a prologue by Borges himself, and articles by Evaristo Carriego and Adolfo Bioy Casares. Edited with Silvina Bullrich.
  • Los mejores cuentos policiales; 2da serie, 1962, with Adolfo Bioy Casares. Primarily translations of English-language detective fiction, plus one of their own Bustos Domecq stories.
  • El matrero, 1970. This anthology of Argentine writers, edited by Borges, contains several pieces overtly by Borges, but also contains three short Borgesian literary forgeries, "Un hijo de Moreira", "Otra versión del Fausto", and "Las leyes del juego."
  • Libro de sueños, 1976, mostly translations and paraphrases of short excerpts from world literature. Some are narrations of dreams, some are about dreams, some merely dreamlike. There are a small number of original pieces and other Spanish-language pieces as well.
  • Poesía Juvenil de J.L. Borges, 1978, a collection of poems written 1919-1922, with an extensive introduction (rather longer than the poems) by Carlos Meneses.
  • Textos recobrados 1919 - 1929, 1997, previously unpublished early works, both prose (in a variety of genres) and poetry (ISBN 84-7888-337-1).
  • Textos recobrados 1931 - 1955, 2002, previously unpublished stories, essays, poems, newspaper articles, book and movie reviews, etc. (ISBN 950-04-2326-X).

English-language publication

Borges's work was first published in book form in English in 1962, with the translation and publication of Ficciones (1944) and the collection known as Labyrinths.

In 1967, Borges began a five-year period of collaboration with the American translator Norman Thomas di Giovanni, after which he became better known in the English-speaking world. Di Giovanni would continue to be his primary English-language translator from that time forward.

Collections originally in English

This is a listing of book-length English-language volumes that are not simply translations of entire Spanish-language books; those are listed above.

  • Labyrinths, 1962. This English-language anthology draws from numerous Spanish-language works.
  • Extraordinary Tales, 1967, with Adolfo Bioy Casares. (ISBN 0-285-64712-1).
  • Selected Poems 1923-1967, a bilingual edition.
  • Borges, a Reader, 1981.
  • Obras Completas, 1989.
  • Everything and Nothing, 1997, several stories from Ficciones combined with two lectures from Seven Nights.
  • Collected Fictions, 1998. Translated by Andrew Hurley. ISBN 0-14-028680-2.
  • Selected Non-fictions, 1999. Edited by Eliot Weinberger. ISBN 0-670-84947-2, ISBN 0-14-029011-7.

Short stories

The translations of the titles are from Collected Fictions, translated by Andrew Hurley. The original publication information is from "Bibliografía cronológica de la obra de Jorge Luis Borges" by Annick Louis & Florian Ziche. Not all of these works sit easily in the classification "short stories". For example, "The Dread Redeemer Lazarus Morell" is largely factual, but the style of telling is so baroque that it reads like a work of fiction. Conversely, the fictional "Pierre Menard, Author of The Quixote" is written in a style resembling an essay in literary criticism.

The groupings represent books in which these were first published; they are listed by the English translation of the original Spanish-language book.

A Universal History of Infamy (1935)
English title Original Spanish title Original Publication Information
"The Dread Redeemer Lazarus Morell" "El espantoso redentor Lazarus Morell" Crítica vol. 1, no. 1. Buenos Aires, Argentina, August 12, 1933
"The Insulting Master of Etiquette Kotsuke no Suke" "El incivil maestro de ceremonias Kotsuké no Suké" Crítica vol. 1, no. 18. Buenos Aires, December 9, 1933
"Monk Eastman, Purveyor of Iniquities" "Eastman, el proveedor de iniquidades" Crítica vol. 1, no. 2. Buenos Aires, August 19, 1933
"Tom Castro, the Implausible Imposter" "El impostor inverosímil Tom Castro"

Crítica vol. 1, no. 8. Buenos Aires, Argentina, September 30, 1933

"The Widow Ching, Lady Pirate" "La viuda Ching" Crítica vol. 1, no. 3. Buenos Aires, August 26, 1933
"The Disinterested Killer Bill Harrigan" "El asesino desinteresado Bill Harrigan" Historia universal de la infamia Buenos Aires: Tor, 1935
Etcetera section (later adition):
"The Chamber of Statues" (1933)
"The Mirror of Ink" (1933)
"Streetcorner Man" (1933)
"The Wizard Postponed" (1933)
"The Masked Dyer, Hakim of Merv" (1934)
"Tale of the Two Dreamers" (1934)
"A Theologian in Death" (1934)
"Death and the Compass" (1944)
"A Double for Mohammed" (1946)
"The Generous Enemy" (1946)
"On Exactitude in Science" (1946)
The Garden of Forking Paths (1941)
English title Original Spanish title Original Publication Information
"Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius"

Sur no. 68. Buenos Aires, Argentina, March, 1940

"The Approach to Al-Mu'tasim" "El acercamiento a Almotásim" Historia de la eternidad. Buenos Aires, Viau y Zona, 1936
"Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote "Pierre Menard, autor del Quijote" Sur no. 56. Buenos Aires, May, 1939
"The Circular Ruins" "Las ruinas circulares" Sur no. 75. Buenos Aires, December, 1940
"The Lottery in Babylon" "La lotería en Babilonia" Sur no. 76. Buenos Aires, January, 1941
"A Survey of the Works of Herbert Quain" "Examen de la obra de Herbert Quain" Sur no. 79. Buenos Aires, April, 1941
"The Library of Babel" "La biblioteca de Babel" El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan. Buenos Aires, Sur, 1941
"The Garden of Forking Paths" "El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan." El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan. Buenos Aires, Sur, 1941
Artifices (1944)
English title Original Spanish title Original Publication Information
"Funes, His Memory" [1] "Funes el memorioso" La Nación. Buenos Aires, 7 May, 1942
"The Shape of the Sword"[2] "La forma de la espada" La Nación. Buenos Aires, 27 July, 1942
"The Theme of the Traitor and the Hero" "Tema del traidor y del héroe" Sur no. 112. February, 1944
"Death and the Compass" "La muerte y la brújula" Sur no. 92. Buenos Aires, May, 1942
"The Secret Miracle" "El milagro secreto" Sur no. 101. Buenos Aires, February, 1943
"Three Versions of Judas" "Tres versiones de Judas" Sur no. 118. Buenos Aires, August, 1944
"The Cult of the Phoenix" [3] "La secta del Fénix" Sur no. 215-216. Buenos Aires, September/October, 1952
"The South" [3] "El sur" La Nación. Buenos Aires, 11 October, 1953
The Aleph (1949)
English title Original Spanish title Original Publication Information
"The Immortal" "Los inmortales" Los Anales de Buenos Aires vol 2, no. 12. Buenos Aires, February, 1947
"The Dead Man" "El Muerto" Sur no. 145. Buenos Aires, November, 1946
"The Theologians" "Los teólogos" Los Anales de Buenos Aires vol 2, no. 14. Buenos AIres, April, 1947
"Story of the Warrior and the Captive Maiden" "Historia del guerrero y la cautiva" Sur no. 175. Buenos Aires, May, 1949
"A Biography of Tadeo Isidoro Cruz (1829-1874)" "Biografía de Tadeo Isidoro Cruz (1829-1874)" Sur no. 122. Buenos Aires, December, 1944
"Emma Zunz" "Emma Zunz" Sur no. 167. Buenos Aires, September, 1948
"The House of Asterion" "La casa de Asterión" Los Anales de Buenos Aires vol. 2, no. 15-16. Buenos Aires, May, 1947
"The Other Death" "La otra muerte" La Nación, Buenos Aires, 9 January, 1949
"Deutches Requiem" "Deutsches Requiem" Sur no. 136. Buenos Aires, February, 1946
"Averroes's Search" "La busca de Averroes" Sur no. 152. Buenos Aires, June, 1947
"The Zahir" "El zahir" Los Anales de Buenos Aires vol. 2, no. 17. Buenos Aires, July, 1947
"The Writing of the God" "La escritura del Dios" Sur no. 172. Buenos Aires, February, 1949
"Ibn-Hakam al-Bokhari, Murdered in His Labryinth" [4] "Abenjacán el Bojarí, muerto en su laberinto" Sur no. 202. Buenos Aires, August, 1951
"The Two Kings and the Two Labyrinths" [4] Una leyenda arábiga (Historia de los dos reyes y los dos laberintos, como nota de Burton) El Hogar Buenos Aires, 16 June, 1939
"The Wait" [4] "La espera" Sur no. 186. Buenos Aires, March, 1950
"The Man on the Threshold" [4] "El hombre en el umbral" La Nación, Buenos Aires, 20 April, 1952
"The Aleph" "El Aleph" Sur no. 131. Buenos Aires, September, 1945


Doctor Brodie's Report

  • "The Intruder" (1966)
  • "The Meeting" (1969)
  • "Rosendo's Tale" (1969)
  • "Doctor Brodie's Report" (1970)
  • "The Duel" (1970)
  • "The Elder Lady" (1970)
  • "The End of the Duel" (1970)
  • "The Gospel According to Mark" (1970)
  • "Guayaquil" (1970)
  • "Juan Muraña" (1970)
  • "The Unworthy Friend" (1970)


The Book of Sand (1975)

  • "Utopia of a Tired Man" (1975) (Nebula award nominee)
  • "The Book of Sand" (1975)
  • "The Bribe" (1975)
  • "The Congress" (1975)
  • "The Disk" (Borges) (1975)
  • "The Mirror and the Mask" (1975)
  • "The Night of the Gifts" (1975)
  • "Avelino Arredondo" (1975)
  • "The Other" (1975)
  • "The Sect of the Thirty" (1975)
  • "There Are More Things" (1975)
  • "Ulrikke" (1975)
  • "Undr" (1975)
  • "August 25, 1983" (1982)
  • "The Rose of Paracelsus" (1983)
  • "Blue Tigers" (1983)


Other (uncertain)

  • "Shakespeare's Memory" (1983)
  • "Odin" (with Delia Ingenieros)

Essays

References

Notes

  1. ^ Also translated as Funes the Memorious
  2. ^ Also known as "The Form of the Sword"
  3. ^ a b Added to the 1956 addition of Artifices
  4. ^ a b c d Added to the 1952 edition of The Aleph Cite error: The named reference "aleph" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
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