About the book: 2007 / The works included in this collection could be called parable stories. And also - essays, sketches, notes or just stories. As always, it is very difficult to determine the genre of Borges' works. He himself did not attach any importance to this, creating his own, unlike anything else, “hypertext”. And it was this collection (together with “The Creator”) that brought Borges truly worldwide fame. We can say that the best examples of Borges's short stories are collected here.