A Note on Editions, Translations, and Titles xiii
1. Biographical Predecessors and Literary Precursors 1
1.1 Reading and Biography 2
2. Borges Père and Borges Fils 12
2.1 Father and Son 13
2.2 Death and Near Death 19
2.3 Borges Père, Author 22
3. Reading, Translating, and Writing about Kafka 34
3.1 Borges Reads Kafka 34
3.2 Borges Translates Kafka 37
3.3 Borges Writes about Kafka 42
3.4 History and Biography 46
3.5 Father and Son, Subordination and Infinity 49
3.6 Kafka and the Model Short Story 60
4. Emulating Kafka in Babylon and Babel 67
4.1 ‘La lotería en Babilonia’ 67
4.2 ‘La biblioteca de Babel’ 74
5. Kafkian Fictions 79
5.1 From ‘El acercamiento a Almotásim’ to ‘Las
ruinas circulares’ 80
5.2 Between the Lottery and the Library: ‘Examen de
la obra de Herbert Quain’ 96
5.3 From ‘El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan’ to ‘El
milagro secreto’ 101
6. The Congress of the World 112
6.1 Kafka: Problems and Paradoxes 113
6.2 Borges Père: Father and Son 117
6.3 Chesterton: God and Man 121
7. Writing about Kafka, Writing about Writing 127
Annotated Bibliography: Works by Borges that Mention Kafka 131
Appendix I: Works by Kafka that Borges Read 149
Appendix II: Jorge Guillermo Borges’s Poetry 152
Momentos 152
El cantar de los cantares 153
Del poema de Omar Jaiyám 155
Rubáiyát 157
Rubáiyát (Continuación) 158
Bibliography 165
Index 177
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