Twenty fictional pieces survey the depth and range of the distinguished Argentine writer's forty-year career as he journeys inside the minds of an unrepentant Nazi, an imprisoned Maya priest, fanatical Christian theologians, a man awaiting his assassin, and a woman plotting vengeance on her father's "killer."

With an introduction by Andrew Hurley.

Contents:

Introduction by Andrew Hurley -- The Aleph (1949). The Immortal ; The dead man ; The theologians ; Story of the warrior and the captive maiden ; A biography of Tadeo Isidoro Cruz (1829-1874) ; Emma Zunz ; The house of Asterion ; The other death ; Deutsches requiem ; Averroës' search ; The Zahir ; The writing of the God ; Ibn-Hakam al-Bokhari, murdered in his labyrinth ; The two kings and the two labyrinths ; The wait ; The man on the threshold ; The Aleph ; Afterword -- The maker (1960). 

Foreword : for Leopold Lugones ; The maker ; Dreamtigers ; A dialogue about a dialogue ; Toenails ; Covered mirrors ; Argumentum Ornithologicum ; The captive ; The mountebank ; Delia Elena San Marco ; A dialogue between dead men ; The plot ; A problem ; The yellow rose ; The witness ; Martín Fierro ; Mutations ; Parable of Cervantes and the Quixote ; Paradiso, XXXI, 108 ; Parable of the palace ; Everything and nothing ; Ragnarök ; Inferno, I ; Borges and I -- Museum. On exactitude and science ; In memoriam J.F.K ; Afterword.