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“... of that task is written into Borges’s early collection of stories, done in collaboration with Adolfo Bioy-Casares, Six Problems for Don Isidro Parodi. They are elaborate amusements of a buried life, though the Grass drawing in this case could as well show a hand reaching through bars as emerging from stones. Don Isidro has been unjustly sentenced to ...”

“... line of things that do. Antonio Muñoz Molina goes to an event in honour of Borges’s friend Adolfo Bioy Casares, and meets his future wife. The Reverend Dr Martin Luther King gears himself up to give what will turn out to be his last speech. Before going to dinner with friends, he goes outside for a smoke. James Earl Ray stands braced feet apart in a ...”

“... but also of six other fictional tomes described by Borges, in collaboration with his friend Adolfo Bioy Casares, in ‘A List and Analysis of the Sundry Books of F.J.C. Loomis’ (1969), a story about a fictional writer that purports to have been written by another fictional writer, Bustos Domecq.These are the flipside of Tonnard’s Invisible Book ...”