Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges, in this short story rife with paradox and irony, from 1971, explores the rifts between Argentina’s social classes and questions the nature of sacrifice.

“Throughout my boyhood, I thought that to be loved would have amounted to an injustice,” the author writes, in this Profile of himself, from 1970.

Fiction, from 1967: “He understood that one destiny is no better than another but that every man should revere the destiny he bears within him.”