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Ficciones
Jorge Luis Borges

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Table of Contents
Part One, The Garden of Forking Paths, Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius....................1
PartOne, The Garden of Forking Paths, The Approach of Al-Mu'tasim
...............4
Part One, The Garden of Forking Paths, Pierre Menard, Author of Don
Quixote..........................................................................................................................6
Part One, The Garden of Forking Paths, The Circular Ruins.................................8
Part One, The Garden ofForked Paths, The Babylon Lottery..............................10
Part One, The Garden of Forking Paths, An Examination of the Work of
Herbert Quain............................................................................................................12
Part One, The Garden of Forking Paths, The Library of Babel............................14
Part One, The Garden of Forking Paths, TheGarden of Forking Paths..............16
Part Two, Artifices, Funes, The Memorious............................................................19
Part Two, Artifices, The Form of the Sword............................................................21
Part Two, Artifices, Theme of the Traitor and Hero
...............................................23
Part Two, Artifices, Death and theCompass...........................................................25
Part Two, Artifices, The Secret Miracle...................................................................27

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Part Two, Artifices, Three Versions of Judas..........................................................28
Part Two, Artifices, TheEnd.....................................................................................30
Part Two, Artifices, The Sect of the Phoenix
............................................................31
Part Two, Artifices, The South..................................................................................32
Characters
....................................................................................................................34
Narratorappears in Tlon,...