A representative selection of shorter and linguistically accessible narratives from the complete works of the great Argentine writer: La intrusa, Las ruinas circulares, La biblioteca de Babel, El sur, El milagro secreto, El libro de arena, El otro, La casa de Asterión, Deutsches Requiem, Los dos reyes y los dos laberintos, Hombre de la esquina rosada, La trama, Diálogo sobre un diálogo, El cautivo. The anthology begins with Borges' homage to the German language: Al idioma alemán. It includes unabridged and unedited original texts with translations of difficult words at the bottom of each page, as well as an afterword and literary references.