Extraordinary Tales Working Page
Abbreviations
ET71: Extraordinary Tales, translated by Anthony Kerrigan; Herder and Herder, 1971.
CB67: Cuentos breves y extraordinarios; Santiago Rueda, 1967.
CB55: Cuentos breves y extraordinarios; Raigal, 1955.
ALF: Antología de la literatura fantástica; 1940.
Yes(V)/No(V) Yes or no in the opinion of Vasha
Sources of Information
- Joaquín Álvarez Barrientos. Imposturas literarias españolas Google Books preview
- Rebecca DeWald. "Extraordinary Tales of Authenticity and Pseudotranslations. Jorge Luis Borges and Adolfo Bioy Casares’s Cuentos" PDF
- Emilio Carilla. "Sobre Menéndez y Pelayo, Borges y la superchería" PDF
- Evelyn Fisburn & Psiche Hughes. A Dictionary of Borges. PDF
- Lucas Adur. "Lo esencial de lo narrativo está en estas piezas. Una lectura de Cuentos breves y extraordinarios de J. L. Borges y A. Bioy Casares" CUNY Academic Commons
Contents
The Death Sentence / La sentencia
Essay: No(V)
Nongenre: No(V)
Credit [CB67/CB55]: Wu Ch'eng-en (c. 1505–c.1580).
Credit [ET71]: Wu Ch'eng-en (c. 1505–c.1580)
Source notes: From chapter 10 of The Journey to the West. The English version does not use the Arthur Waley translation, which begins "That night, at the hour of the rat, the Emperor dreamt that he went out of his palace to walk under the blossoming trees by moonlight." The translator of this one is unknown to me (V).
DB credit: uncredited [as by Wu Ch'êng-ên] (because all excerpts from The Journey to the West have an uncredited parent title). Date: 1955/1971.
The Secret Redeemer / El redentor secreto
Essay: No(V)
Nongenre: No(V)
Credit [CB67/CB55]: Del Indian Antiquary, I (1872).
Credit [ET71]: From the Indian Antiquary, I (1872)
Source notes: The full text of the Indian Antiquary Vol. I (1872) is available and I (V) could not find this story in it, searching for various possible wordings.
DB credit:
The Annihilation of the Ogres / El aniquilación de los ogros
Essay: No(V)
Nongenre: No(V)
Credit [CB67/CB55]: De Folk Tales of Bengal (Londres, 1883), de Lal Behari Day.
Credit [ET71]: From Folk Tales of Bengal (London, 1883), by Lal Behari Day
Source notes: Text of Folk Tales of Bengal shows that the Spanish version is a very compressed retelling of the story, and the English version is Kerrigan's translation of the the retelling.
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The Story of Cecilia / Historia de Cecilia
Essay: No(V)
Nongenre: No(V)
Credit [CB67/CB55]: Cicerón, De divinatione, I, 46.
Credit [ET71]: Cicero, De divinatione, I, 46
Source notes: Online text of De divinatione (in Latin) shows that this is a direct translation. However, the exact wording of the English version could not be found.
DB credit: Cicero
The Encounter / El encuentro
Essay: No(V)
Nongenre: No(V)
Credit [CB67/CB55]: (Cuento de la dinastía T'ang, 618–906 a. C.).
Credit [ET71]: A tale from the T'ang Dynasty (618–906 A.D.)
Source notes:
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Hard to Please / Difícil de contentar
Essay: No(V)
Nongenre: Yes(V)
Credit [CB67/CB55]: Ibn Abd Rabbih, Kitabal idq el farid, tomo III.
Credit [ET71]: Ibn Abd Rabbith, Kitabal idq el farid, III
Source notes:
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Scattered Themes from the Note-Books of Nathaniel Hawthorne / Argumentos anotados por Nathaniel Hawthorne
Essay: ?Yes(V)
Nongenre: No(V)
Credit [CB67/CB55]: Nathaniel Hawthorne, Note-books (1868).
Credit [ET71]: Nathaniel Hawthorne, Note-Books (1868)
Source notes: Six selections from Passages from the American Note-books of Nathaniel Hawthorne, published in a series of articles in the Atlantic Monthly in 1866 and then in book form in 1868.
DB credit: Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Dream of Chuang Tzu / El sueño de Chuang Tzu
Essay: No(V)
Nongenre: No(V)
Credit [CB67/CB55]: De Chuang Tzu (1889) de Herbert Allen Giles.
Credit [ET71]: From Chuang Tzu (1889), by Herbert Allen Giles
Source notes: This is not a direct quote of Giles's translation of Chuang Tzu (which begins "I, Chuang Tzu, dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither ..."), but rather a retelling in the Spanish, which Kerrigan translates.
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The Hidden Deer / El ciervo escondido
Essay: No(V)
Nongenre: No(V)
Credit [CB67/CB55]: Liehtse (c. 300 a. C.).
Credit [ET71]: Liehtse (c. 300 A.D.)
Source notes: Direct translation from Liezi; translator not found.
DB credit: 列子 [as by Liehtse]
The Brahmins and the Lion / Los brahmanes y el león
Essay: No(V)
Nongenre: No(V)
Credit [CB67/CB55]: Panchatantra (siglo II a. C.).
Credit [ET71]: Panchatantra (second century A.D.)
Source notes: direct translation from Panchatantra, known as "The Lion That Sprang to Life," "The foolish scholars bring a lion back to life" etc. Trans. Arthur W. Ryder as "The Lion-Makers" 1925. This particular translation unknown source.
DB credit: Vasha says: credit should be "uncredited" -- I disagree with current English credit to Panchatantra which is a book title
A Golem / Un golem
Essay: No(V)
Nongenre: No(V)
Credit [CB67/CB55]: Senhedrin, 65, b.
Credit [ET71]: Sanhedrin, 65, b.
Source notes: An abridgment (interpretive sentences omitted) of Sanhedrin 65b. Presumably put into this form by B&B, then translated by Kerrigan.
DB credit: uncredited
The Return of the Master / La vuelta del maestro
Essay: No(V)
Nongenre: No(V)
Credit [CB67/CB55]: Alexandra David-Neel, Mystiques et Magiciens du Tibet (1929).
Credit [ET71]: Alexandra David-Neel, Magic and Mystery in Tibet (1929)
Source notes: Compressed & altered translation of a passage from Mystiques et magiciens du Thibet, untitled in the original.
DB credit: Alexandra David-Neel & Borges & Bioy [as by Alexandra David-Neel]
In Fear of Wrath / Temor de la cólera
Essay: Yes(V)
Nongenre: Yes(V)
Credit [CB67/CB55]: Ah'med el Qalyubi, Nanadir.
Credit [ET71]: Ah'med el Qalyubi, Nanadir
Source notes:
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Andromeda / Andrómeda
Essay: Yes(V)
Nongenre: No(V)
Credit [CB67/CB55]: Samuel Butler, Note-books.
Credit [ET71]: Samuel Butler, Note-Books (London, 1951)
Source notes: Almost direct translation; has the same title in the original. Date is actually 1917.
DB credit: Samuel Butler. Date: 1917.
The Dream / El sueño
Essay: No(V)
Nongenre: No(V)
Credit [CB67/CB55]: O. Henry.
Credit [ET71]: O. Henry
Source notes: translated in full
DB credit: O. Henry
The King's Promise / La promesa del rey
Essay: Yes(V)
Nongenre: Yes(V)
Credit [CB67/CB55]: Del capítulo XCI del décimo libro de la Heimskringla.
Credit [ET71]: Heimskringla, 91–92
Source notes: retelling of the story from the Heimskringla which is much longer in the original.
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The Captive's Oath / El juramiento del cautivo
Essay: No(V)
Nongenre: No(V)
Credit [CB67/CB55]: De la noche tercera del libro de Las Mil y Una Noches.
Credit [ET71]: From the Third Night of the Book of The Thousand and One Nights
Source notes: Excerpt from the story translated by Burton as "The Fisherman and the Jinni". This translation is reminiscent of Burton but very much simplified and shortened.
DB credit: uncredited
Nosce Te Ipsum / Nosce Te Ipsum
Essay: ?No(V)
Nongenre: Yes(V)
Credit [CB55]: not in this edition
Credit [CB67]: Fergus Nicholson, Antología de espejos (Edimburgo, 1917).
Credit [ET71]: Fergus Nicholson, Antología de espejos
Source notes:
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The Intuitive One / El intuitivo
Essay: No(V)
Nongenre: Yes(V)
Credit [CB67/CB55]: Alfonso Reyes, El deslinde (1944).
Credit [ET71]: Alfonso Reyes, El deslinde (1944)
Source notes: El deslinde is a work of literary theory. However, since this anecdote is prefaced by "They say..." it counts as fiction. Engl. trans. by Kerrigan.
DB credit: Alfonso Reyes
How I Found the Superman / Cómo descubrí al Superhombre
Essay: No(V)
Nongenre: No(V)
Credit [CB67/CB55]: G. K. Chesterton.
Credit [ET71]: G. K. Chesterton
Source notes: Google Books confirms that this is from Alarms and Discursions (1911) and has the same title there.
DB credit: G. K. Chesterton
The King's Awakening / El despertar del rey
Essay: ?No(V)
Nongenre: ?No(V)
Credit [CB55]: not in this edition
Credit [CB67]: H. Desvignes Doolittle, Rambling Thoughts on World History (Niagara Falls, 1903).
Credit [ET71]: H. Desvignes Doolittle, Rambling Thoughts on World History (Niagara Falls, 1903)
Source notes: Anthony Kerrigan states in his note on sources that he does not believe that the alleged source book exists.
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Death of a Chief / Muerte de un jefe
Essay: ?Yes(V)
Nongenre: Yes(V)
Credit [CB55]: not in this edition
Credit [CB67]: León Rivera, Bocetos de un asistente (La Plata, 1894).
Credit [ET71]: León Rivera, Bocetos de un asistente (La Plata, 1894)
Source notes:
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The Announcement / El aviso
Essay: ?Yes(V)
Nongenre: Yes(V)
Credit [CB55]: not in this edition
Credit [CB67]: George V. Brown, Gleanings in Caledonian Byways (Dunbar, 1901).
Credit [ET71]: George V. Brown, Gleanings in Caledonian Byways (Dunbar, 1901)
Source notes:
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The Explanation / La explicación
Essay: ?Yes(V)
Nongenre: ?No(V)
Credit [CB67/CB55]: Edwin Broster, Addenda to a History of Freethinking (Edinburgh, 1887).
Credit [ET71]: Edwin Broster, Addenda to a History of Freethinking (Edinburgh, 1887)
Source notes:
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An Alexandrian Myth / Un mito de Alejandro
Essay: No(V)
Nongenre: No(V)
Credit [CB67/CB55]: Adrienne Bordenave, La modification du Passé ou la seule base de la Tradition (Pau, 1949).
Credit [ET71]: Adrienne Bordenave, La modification du Passé ou la seule base de la Tradition (Pau, 1949)
Source notes: fictive source according to this
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The Work and the Poet / La obra y el poeta
Essay: No(V)
Nongenre: No(V)
Credit [CB67/CB55]: R. F. Burton, Indica (1887).
Credit [ET71]: R. F. Burton, Indica (1887)
Source notes: almost certainly fictive source. No such book by Burton?
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Eugenics / Eugenesia
Essay: Yes(V)
Nongenre: ?Yes(V)
Credit [CB67/CB55]: Drummond, Ben Ionsiana (c. 1618).
Credit [ET71]: Drummond, Ben Ionsiana (c. 1618)
Source notes: Notes of Ben Johnson´s Conversations with William Drummond of Hawthornden. The original text reads: "A Gentlewoman fell in such a phantasie or phrensie with one Mr. Dod, a puritan preacher, that she requeested her husband that, for the procreation of ane Angel or Saint, he might lye with her; which having obtained, it was but ane ordinarie birth."
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The Mendicant of Naples / La mendiga de Nápoles
Essay: No(V)
Nongenre: Yes(V)
Credit [CB67/CB55]: Max Jacob, Le Cornet à Dés (1917).
Credit [ET71]: Max Jacob, Le Cornet à Dés (1917)Le Cornet à Dés
Source notes: A short piece in French titled "La mendiante de Naples" in Le cornet à dés (1917) (confirmed by online text). Translator of English version unknown.
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A God Abandons Alexandria / Un dios abandona a Alejandría
Essay: ?Yes(V)
Nongenre: No(V)
Credit [CB67/CB55]: De Las Vidas de los Varones Ilustres, de Plutarco.
Credit [ET71]: From The Parallel Lives of Plutarch
Source notes: Translation from Plutarch, Life of Antony. Source of this translation unknown.
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The Female Disciple / La discípula
Essay: No(V)
Nongenre: Yes(V)
Credit [CB67/CB55]: Herbert Allen Giles: Chuang Tzu (1889).
Credit [ET71]: Herbert Allen Giles, Chuang Tzu (1889)
Source notes: This is a direct translation from chapter 14 of Chuang Tzu. However, Kerrigan does not use Giles's translation, which begins, "When Hsi Shih was distressed in mind, she knitted her brows..."
DB credit: Vasha says: The credit in the book states (though not clearly) that this is from Giles's translation of the works of Chuang Tzu. I think we should give the credit as Chuang Tzu, and just put in the notes what the book literally says.
The Ninth Slave / El noveno esclavo
Essay: ?Yes(V)
Nongenre: Yes(V)
Credit [CB67/CB55]: Del capítulo LXV del Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, de Gibbon.
Credit [ET71]: Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Chapter LXV
Source notes: Direct excerpt from Gibbon. Untitled in the original.
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A Victor / Un vencedor
Essay: ?Yes(V)
Nongenre: Yes(V)
Credit [CB67/CB55]: De la empresa XCVI de Idea de un Príncipe Político-cristiano (1640), de Saavedra Fajardo.
Credit [ET71]: Saavedra Fajardo, Idea de un Príncipe Político-cristiano, XCVI (1640)
Source notes: Direct excerpt. Untitled in the original.
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The Dangerous Wonder-Worker / El peligroso taumaturgo
Essay: ?Yes(V)
Nongenre: No(V)
Credit [CB67/CB55]: M. R. Werner, Brigham Young (1925).
Credit [ET71]: M. R. Werner, Brigham Young (1925)
Source notes: Compressed version of an untitled passage from pp. 81-82 of Brigham Young.
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The Castle / El castillo
Essay: No(V)
Nongenre: No(V)
Credit [CB67/CB55]: De Jacques Le Fataliste (1773), de Diderot.
Credit [ET71]: From Jacques Le Fataliste (1773), by Diderot
Source notes: "Ils s’acheminèrent vers… oui ; pourquoi pas ?… vers un château immense, au frontispice duquel on lisait : « Je n’appartiens à personne et j’appartiens à tout le monde. Vous y étiez avant que d’y entrer, et vous y serez encore quand vous en sortirez. » "
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The Statue / La estatua
Essay: Yes(V)
Nongenre: ?No(V)
Credit [CB67/CB55]: Del noveno párrafo del tratado De Isis y Osiris, de Plutarco.
Credit [ET71]: From the ninth paragraph of the treatise Of Isis and Osiris, by Plutarch
Source notes: Paraphrased.
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The Warning / La advertencia
Essay: ?Yes(V)
Nongenre: ?No(V)
Credit [CB67/CB55]: R. F. Burton, 1001 Nights, II, 141.
Credit [ET71]: R. F. Burton, 1001 Nights, II, 141
Source notes: Probably fictitious?
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The Prowess of Villena / Las facultades de Villena
Essay: Yes(V)
Nongenre: No(V)
Credit [CB67/CB55]: De la Antología de Poetas Líricos Castellanos, de Menéndez y Pelayo.
Credit [ET71]: From the Antología de Poetas Líricos Castellanos, Menéndez y Pelayo
Source notes: Direct excerpt (untitled in the original) from Antología de poetas líricos castellanos ..., Volume 5, 1894
DB credit: Menéndez y Pelayo. Date: 1955.
The Shadow of the Moves, I / La sombra de las jugadas
Essay: No(V)
Nongenre: No(V)
Credit [CB67/CB55]: Edwin Morgan, The Week-End Companion to Wales and Cornwall (Chester, 1929).
Credit [ET71]: Edwin Morgan, The Week-End Companion to Wales and Cornwall (Chester, 1929)
Source notes: Week-End Companion apparently does not exist. However, the story is a retelling of one in "The Dream of Rhonabwy" (Mabinogion).
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The Shadow of the Moves, II / La sombra de las jugadas
Essay: ?No(V)
Nongenre: No(V)
Credit [CB67/CB55]: Celestino Palomeque, Cabotaje en Mozambique (Porto Alegre, sine data).
Credit [ET71]: Celestino Palomeque, Cabotaje en Mozambique (Porto Alegre, n.d.)
Source notes:
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The Culpable Eyes / Los ojos culpables
Essay: No(V)
Nongenre: No(V)
Credit [CB67/CB55]: Ah'med ech Chiruani, H'adiquat el Afrah.
Credit [ET71]: Ah'med ech Chiruani, H'adiquat el Afrah
Source notes:
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The Prophet, the Bird, and the Net / El profeta, el pájaro y la red
Essay: No(V)
Nongenre: No(V)
Credit [CB67/CB55]: Ah'med et Tortuchi, Siradj el Moluk.
Credit [ET71]: Ah'med et Tortuchi, Siradj el Moluk
Source notes:
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The Celestial Deer / Los ciervos celestiales
Essay: ?No(V)
Nongenre: No(V)
Credit [CB67/CB55]: G. Willoughby-Meade, Chinese Ghouls and Goblins (1928).
Credit [ET71]: G. Willoughby-Meade, Chinese Ghouls and Goblins (1928)
Source notes: The book exists; story not found in a search
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The Cook / El cocinero
Essay: No(V)
Nongenre: Yes(V)
Credit [CB67/CB55]: Max Jacob, Le Cornet à Dés (1917).
Credit [ET71]: Max Jacob, Le Cornet à Dés (1917)
Source notes: A short piece in French titled "Encore Fantômas" in Le Cornet à Dés (confirmed by online text). Translator of the English version unknown.
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Polemicists / Polemistas
Essay: No(V)
Nongenre: Yes(V)
Credit [CB67/CB55]: Luis L. Antuñano, Cincuenta años en Gorchs (Medio siglo en campos de Buenos Aires, Olavarría, 1911).
Credit [ET71]: Luis L. Antuñano, "Cincuenta años en Gorchs" (Medio siglo en campos de Buenos Aires, Olavarría, 1911).
Source notes:
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Perplexities of the Coward / Perplejidades del cobarde
Essay: ?No(V)
Nongenre: Yes(V)
Credit [CB67/CB55]: Ah'med el Ibelichi, Mostratef.
Credit [ET71]: Ah'med el Ibelichi, Mostratef
Source notes:
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The Restitution of the Keys / La restitución de las llaves
Essay: ?No(V)
Nongenre: No(V)
Credit [CB67/CB55]: Del capítulo XXIX del tratado Taanith de la Mishnah.
Credit [ET71]: From the treatise Taanith, of the Mishnah, Ch. XXIX
Source notes:
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Trained Sepulchres / Sepulcros adiestrados
Essay: Yes(V)
Nongenre: Yes(V)
Credit [CB67/CB55]: Del libro primero de las Cuestiones Tusculanas de Marco Tulio Cicerón.
Credit [ET71]: From Tusculane Disputationes, by Marcus Tullius Cicero, Bk. 1
Source notes: Direct quote from Tusculane Disputationes I.108; translator unknown.
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The Silence of the Sirens / El silencio de las sirenas
Essay: No(V)
Nongenre: No(V)
Credit [CB67/CB55]: Franz Kafka.
Credit [ET71]: Franz Kafka (The Great Wall of China, trans. by Willa and Edwin Muir, New York, 1948)
Source notes:
DB credit: Franz Kafka
The Blow / La bofetada
Essay: No(V)
Nongenre: Yes(V)
Credit [CB67/CB55]: De Essays in Little (1891), de Andrew Lang
Credit [ET71]: From Essays in Little (1891), by Andrew Lang
Source notes: Literal translation of passage from Essays in Little.
DB credit: Andrew Lang. Date: 1955.
The Pattern on the Carpet / El dibujo del tapiz
Essay: No(V)
Nongenre: ?Yes(V)
Credit [CB67/CB55]: De The London Adventure (1924), de Arthur Machen.
Credit [ET71]: From The London Adventure (1924), by Arthur Machen
Source notes: Confirmed excerpt from The London Adventure (untitled passage from chapter III).
DB credit: Arthur Machen. Date: 1955 (because it is the date of this excerpt)
The Story of the Two Kings and the Two Labyrinths / Historia de los dos reyes y de los dos laberintos
Essay: No(V)
Nongenre: No(V)
Credit [CB67/CB55]: De The Land of Midian Revisited, de R. F. Burton.
Credit [ET71]: From The Land of Midian Revisited (1879), by R. F. Burton
Source notes: This story is not in The Land of Midian (Revisited) (see Google Books)
DB credit: Jorge Luis Borges [as by R. F. Burton]
The Confession / La confesión
Essay: No(V)
Nongenre: Yes(V)
Credit [CB67/CB55]: Manuel Peyrou.
Credit [ET71]: Manuel Peyrou
Source notes: Definitely by Peyrou and published under this title. May have appeared for the first time in this book.
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Another Version of Faust / Otra versión del Fausto
Essay: Yes(V)
Nongenre: Yes(V)
Credit [CB67/CB55]: Fra Diavolo, Vistazos críticos a los orígenes de nuestro teatro, Caras y Caretas, 1911.
Credit [ET71]: Fra Diavolo, "Vistazos críticos a los orígenes de nuestro teatro," Caras y Caretas, 1911.
Source notes:
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The Treasure / Hallazgo de un tesoro
Essay: No(V)
Nongenre: No(V)
Credit [CB67/CB55]: Marcial Tamayo (Buenos Aires, julio de 1953).
Credit [ET71]: Marcel Tamayo (Buenos Aires, July 1953)
Source notes:
DB credit: Marcial Tamayo
The Greater Torment / El mayor tormento
Essay: ?Yes(V)
Nongenre: No(V)
Credit [CB67/CB55]: El falso Swedenborg, Ensueños (1873).
Credit [ET71]: The False Swedenborg, Dreams (1873)
Source notes:
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Theology / Teología
Essay: ?Yes(V)
Nongenre: ?No(V)
Credit [CB67/CB55]: H. Garro, Tout lou Mond, Oloron-Saint-Marie (1918).
Credit [ET71]: H. Garro, Tout lou Mond, Oloron-Saint-Marie (1918)
Source notes:
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The Magnet / El imán
Essay: No(V)
Nongenre: No(V)
Credit [CB67/CB55]: Del capítulo XIII de The Life of Oscar Wilde (1946), de Hesketh Pearson.
Credit [ET71]: From Chapter 13 of The Life of Oscar Wilde, by Hesketh Pearson (London, 1946–1954)
Source notes:
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The Inextinguishable Race / La raza inextinguible
Essay: No(V)
Nongenre: No(V)
Credit [CB67/CB55]: Silvina Ocampo.
Credit [ET71]: Silvina Ocampo
Source notes:
DB credit: Silvina Ocampo
The Face of Death / El gesto de la Muerte
Essay: No(V)
Nongenre: No(V)
Credit [CB67/CB55]: De Le Grand Écart, de Jean Cocteau.
Credit [ET71]: From Le Grand Écart, by Jean Cocteau
Source notes: direct translation of "Le jardinier et la Mort"
DB credit: Jean Cocteau. date: 1940.
Faith, Half-Faith, and No Faith at All / Fe, alguna fe y ninguna fe
Essay: No(V)
Nongenre: No(V)
Credit [CB67/CB55]: R. L. Stevenson, Fables (1896).
Credit [ET71]: R. L. Stevenson
Source notes:
DB credit: Robert Louis Stevenson [as by R. L. Stevenson]
The Miracle / El milagro
Essay: No(V)
Nongenre: No(V)
Credit [CB67/CB55]: W. Somerset Maugham, A Writer's Notebook (1949).
Credit [ET71]: W. Somerset Maugham, A Writer's Notebook (London, 1949–1951)
Source notes:
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Two Co-eternals / Dos coeternos
Essay: No(V)
Nongenre: No(V)
Credit [CB55]: Not in this edition
Credit [CB67]: Johannes Cambrencis, Animadversiones (Lichtfield, 1709).
Credit [ET71]: Johannes Cambrencis, Animadversiones (Lichtfield, 1709)
Source notes:
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Social Success / Triunfo social
Essay: No(V)
Nongenre: Yes(V)
Credit [CB67/CB55]: Logan Pearsall Smith, Trivia (1918).
Credit [ET71]: Logan Pearsall Smith, Trivia (1918)
Source notes: Google Books confirms that the attribution is correct and that the piece had this title in the original.
DB credit: Logan Pearsall Smith
The Train / El tren
Essay: No(V)
Nongenre: No(V)
Credit [CB67/CB55]: Santiago Dabove (1946).
Credit [ET71]: Santiago Dabove (1946)
Source notes: First published in Los Anales de Buenos Aires no. 1, January 1946
DB credit: Santiago Dabove
A Provocation Punished / Provocación castigada
Essay: No(V)
Nongenre: No(V)
Credit [CB67/CB55]: Ah'med el Qalyubi, Kitab en Nanadir.
Credit [ET71]: Ah'med el Qalyubi, Kitab en Nanadir
Source notes:
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Tale / Cuento
Essay: No(V)
Nongenre: No(V)
Credit [CB67/CB55]: Paul Valéry, Histoires Brisées (1950).
Credit [ET71]: Paul Valéry, Histoires Brisées (1950)
Source notes: Oeuvres, vol. 3, has the following note (seen in partial view in Google Books) "Sous le titre de « Trois contes inédits de Valéry », Le Figaro donnait, le 6 mai, l'« Avertissement » (voir p. 1330), puis trois fragments : « Dans l'île de Xiphos », « Supplice étrange » et « Un homme était sûr de quelque chose ..." I (V) cannot find what year this article supposedly appeareed
DB credit: Paul Valéry. Year: 1950
Prestigieux, Sans Doute / Prestigieux, sans doute
Essay: No(V)
Nongenre: Yes(V)
Credit [CB67/CB55]: Aguirre Acevedo, Fantasmagorías (1927).
Credit [ET71]: Aguirre Acevedo, Fantasmagorías (1927)
Source notes:
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The Ubiquitous One, I / El ubicuo
Essay: No(V)
Nongenre: No(V)
Credit [CB67/CB55]: M. Winternitz, Indische Literatur (1920).
Credit [ET71]: Moriz Winternitz, Geschichte der indischen Literatur (1920)
Source notes:
DB credit:
The Ubiquitous One, II / El ubicuo
Essay: No(V)
Nongenre: No(V)
Credit [CB67/CB55]: Simao Pereyra, S. J., Cuarenta años en el lecho del Ganges (Goa, 1887).
Credit [ET71]: Simon Pereyra, S. J., Cuarenta años en el lecho del Ganges (Goa, 1887)
Source notes:
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The Oversight / El descuido
Essay: No(V)
Nongenre: No(V)
Credit [CB67/CB55]: Martin Buber.
Credit [ET71]: Martin Buber
Source notes:
DB credit:
The Sect of the White Lotus / La secta del Loto Blanco
Essay: No(V)
Nongenre: No(V)
Credit [CB67/CB55]: Richard Wilhelm, Chinesische Volksmärchen (1924).
Credit [ET71]: Richard Wilhelm, Chinesische Volksmärchen (1924)
Source notes: Direct quote from "Die Sekte vom weißen Lotos" in CV, but only the first half of the story.
DB credit: Richard Wilhelm (1873-1930)
Protection Through the Book / La protección por el libro
Essay: No(V)
Nongenre: No(V)
Credit [CB67/CB55]: G. Willoughby-Meade, Chinese Ghouls and Goblins (1928).
Credit [ET71]: G. Willoughby-Meade, Chinese Ghouls and Goblins (1928)
Source notes: Really exists; different title in the original.
DB credit:
The Meeting / El encuentro
Essay: ?Yes(V)
Nongenre: Yes(V)
Credit [CB67/CB55]: Louis Prolat, La Tarif de Marseille (1869).
Credit [ET71]: Louis Prolat, La Tarif de Marseille (1869)
Source notes:
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The Water on the Island / Del agua de la isla
Essay: No(V)
Nongenre: No(V)
Credit [CB67/CB55]: Del Narrative of A. Gordon Pym (1838), de Poe.
Credit [ET71]: From the Narrative of A. Gordon Pym (1838), Edgar Allan Poe (The Works of E. A. Poe, New York, 1900)
Source notes:
DB credit: Edgar Allan Poe
On Exactitude in Science / Del rigor en la ciencia
Essay: No(V)
Nongenre: No(V)
Credit [CB67/CB55]: Suárez Miranda, Viajes de Varones Prudentes, libro cuarto, cap. XIV, Lérida, 1658.
Credit [ET71]: Suárez Miranda, Viajes de Varones Prudentes, libro cuarto, cap. XIV (Lérida, 1658)
Source notes:
DB credit:
The Dedicated Student / El estudioso
Essay: Yes(V)
Nongenre: Yes(V)
Credit [CB67/CB55]: Adler-Revon, Japanische Literatur.
Credit [ET71]: Adler-Revon, Japanische Literatur
Source notes:
DB credit:
The Vicissitudes of Consolation / Vicisitudes del consuelo
Essay: No(V)
Nongenre: No(V)
Credit [CB67/CB55]: T. M. Chang, A Grove of Leisure (Shanghai, 1882).
Credit [ET71]: T. M. Chang, A Grove of Leisure (Shanghai, 1882)
Source notes:
DB credit:
The Truth About Sancho Panza / La verdad sobre Sancho Panza
Essay: No(V)
Nongenre: No(V)
Credit [CB67/CB55]: Franz Kafka.
Credit [ET71]: Franz Kafka
Source notes:
DB credit: Franz Kafka
Un doble de Mahoma
Essay: ?No(V)
Nongenre: No(V)
Credit [CB67/CB55]: De Vera Christiana Religio (1771), de Emanuel Swedenborg.
Credit [ET71]: not in this edition
Source notes:
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Salvation / La salvación
Essay: No(V)
Nongenre: No(V)
Credit [CB67/CB55]: Adolfo Bioy Casares.
Credit [ET71]: Adolfo Bioy Casares
Source notes:
DB credit: Adolfo Bioy Casares
In Insomnia / En el insomnio
Essay: No(V)
Nongenre: No(V)
Credit [CB67/CB55]: Virgilio Piñera (1946).
Credit [ET71]: Virgilio Piñera (1946)
Source notes:
DB credit: Virgilio Piñera
Distracted / Distraerse
Essay: No(V)
Nongenre: No(V)
Credit [CB67/CB55]: Henri Michaux, Un Barbare en Asie.
Credit [ET71]: Henri Michaux, Un barbare en Asie
Source notes:
DB credit:
The Egyptian Temptation / La tentación
Essay: ?Yes(V)
Nongenre: ?Yes(V)
Credit [CB67/CB55]: Edward William Lane, Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians (1836).
Credit [ET71]: Edward William Lane, Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians (1836), Author's Preface
Source notes:
DB credit:
Retrospective / Un retrospectivo
Essay: ?Yes(V)
Nongenre: No(V)
Credit [CB67/CB55]: Clemente Sosa, Informe sobre la conducción de hacienda en pie en balsas entre Villa Constitución y Campana (Campana, 1913).
Credit [ET71]: Clemente Sosa, Informe sobre la conducción de hacienda en pie en balsas entre Villa Constitución y Campana (Campana, 1913)
Source notes:
DB credit:
The Accused / El acusado
Essay: No(V)
Nongenre: No(V)
Credit [CB67/CB55]: Martin Buber.
Credit [ET71]: Martin Buber
Source notes:
DB credit:
The Spectator / El espectador
Essay: No(V)
Nongenre: No(V)
Credit [CB67/CB55]: José Zorrilla, Don Juan Tenorio (1844).
Credit [ET71]: José Zorrilla, Don Juan Tenorio (1844), Act III, Scene 2
Source notes:
DB credit:
Perils of an Excess of Duty / Peligros del exceso de piedad
Essay: No(V)
Nongenre: ?Yes(V)
Credit [CB67/CB55]: Nozhat el Djallas.
Credit [ET71]: Nozhat el Djallas
Source notes:
DB credit:
Conclusion for a Fantasy / Final para un cuento fantástico
Essay: No(V)
Nongenre: No(V)
Credit [CB67/CB55]: I. A. Ireland, Visitations (1919).
Credit [ET71]: I. A. Ireland, Visitations (1919)
Source notes:
DB credit:
Four Reflections / Cuatro reflexiones
Essay: No(V) -- this is four short parables
Nongenre: No(V)
Credit [CB67/CB55]: Franz Kafka, Reflexiones sobre el pecado, el dolor, la esperanza y el verdadero camino (1917–1919).
Credit [ET71]: Franz Kafka, "Reflections on Sin, Pain, Hope and the True Way" (in The Great Wall of China, trans. by W. and E. Muir, New York, 1948)
Source notes:
DB credit:
Story with Foxes / Historia de zorros
Essay: No(V)
Nongenre: No(V)
Credit [CB67/CB55]: Niu Chiao, Ling kuai lu (siglo IX).
Credit [ET71]: Niu Chiao, Ling kuai lu (ninth century)
Source notes:
DB credit:
Just in Case / Por si acaso
Essay: Yes(V)
Nongenre: ?Yes(V)
Credit [CB67/CB55]: Beda el Venerable: Historia Eclesiástica de la Nación Inglesa, II, 15.
Credit [ET71]: The Venerable Bede, The Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation, II, 15 (trans. by John Stevens and Lionel Jane, London, 1944)
Source notes:
DB credit: Bede
Odin / Odin
Essay: No(V)
Nongenre: No(V)
Credit [CB67/CB55]: Jorge Luis Borges y Delia Ingenieros, Antiguas literaturas germánicas (1951).
Credit [ET71]: Jorge Luis Borges y Delia Ingenieros, Antiguas literaturas germánicas (1951)
Source notes:
DB credit:
Aurea Mediocritas / Aurea Mediocritas
Essay: Yes(V)
Nongenre: Yes(V)
Credit [CB67/CB55]: Tallemant des Réaux, Les Historiettes (XXIX).
Credit [ET71]: Tallemant des Réaux, Les Historiettes, XXIX
Source notes:
DB credit: