Brodie's Report

Title: Brodie's Report Author: Jorge Luis Borges ISBN: 9780143039259 Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group Published: 2005 Binding: Paperback Language: English Condition: New New from the publisher Fiction 1694012 Publisher Description: 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. Throughout, opposing themes of fate and free will, loyalty and betrayal, time and memory flicker in the recesses of these compelling stories, among the best Borges ever wrote. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of