Brodie's report

Jorge Luis Borges

Original title: Works (Elogio de la Sombra / Informe de Brodie)

earliest edition we have, 2000 Penguin, 2000 131 pages

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At the age of seventy, after a gap of twenty years, Jorge Luis Borges returned to writing short stories. In "Brodie's Report," he returned also to the style of his earlier years with its brutal realism, nightmares, and bloodshed. Many of these stories, including "Unworthy" and "The Other Duel," are set in the macho Argentinean underworld, and even the rivalries between artists are suffused with suppressed violence. T...

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Brodie's report edition · 2005 · Penguin Books · 144 pages
Brodie's report edition · 2000 · Penguin · 131 pages

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