Brodie's Report: Including the Prose Fiction from In Praise of Darkness

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Penguin, 2000 - Fiction - 131 pages
The art of writing is mysterious; the opinions we hold are ephemeral. In these eleven short stories the quality of his inspiration is unmistakable. With their deceptively simple, almost laconic style, they achieve a magical impression that is unrivalled in modern writing.

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Foreword
3
Pedro Salvadores
9
His End and His Beginning
15
Copyright

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Borges was born in Buenos Aires in 1899. A poet, critic and short story writer, he received numerous awards for his work including the 1961 International Publisher's Prize (shared with Samuel Beckett). He died in 1986. He has a reasonable claim, with Kafka and Joyce, to be the most influential writer of the twentieth century.

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