Borges guides is a collection-in-progress of printable guides that can serve as endnote supplements for the stories of Jorge Luis Borges. They are mostly compilations of entries from the excellent Dictionary of Borges by Evelyn Fishburn & Psiche Hughes, with other reference books. The entries are listed in the order of their appearance in the stories.

In a few places I have added excerpts from the original Spanish text to be compared to the English translation. For the English reader, I recommend the sadly out of print Borges/di Giovanni translations (Dutton).

An Acrobat version is available alongside the html link. To make a book-like printout of these notes: From within Acrobat Reader, choose Print, and select "2 pages per sheet" (usually in "Properties" window).

Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius [pdf]

Theme of the Traitor and the Hero [pdf]

Ibn Hakkan al-Bokhari, Dead in His Labyrinth [pdf]

Deutsches Requiem [pdf]

Death and the Compass [pdf]

The Immortal [pdf]

The Theologians [pdf]

Ragnarök [pdf]

more to come, I hope.