Description

This edition brings together two late collections of short stories by Jorge Luis Borges — “Doctor Brodie’s Report” and “The Book of Sand” — in which the master of short fiction returns to a deliberate simplicity of form without sacrificing depth or philosophical richness. These texts are reflections on power and violence, memory and oblivion, chance and fate, and the limits of human cognition and the perils of absolute knowledge.

Borges’s characters — ordinary people and legendary figures, chroniclers and witnesses to strange events — encounter mysteries that can never be fully exhausted. Of particular importance is the motif of the book as an infinite and threatening object — a symbol of a world where meaning is always elusive.

The Belarusian translation from Spanish by Siarhiej Šupa preserves the clarity and conciseness of the late Borges, his restrained irony, and his precision of thought.