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A Universal History of Iniquity

Jorge Luis Borges

First published 2001
Publisher Penguin Books
Format Trade Paperback
Type Collection
Cover art Hieronymus Bosch
Pages 105
ISBN 0141183853

  • {{Tr|Andrew Hurley}}. Wikipedia gives the date for Andrew Hurley's translations as 2004, however they first appeared in Collected Fictions in the US in 1998.
  • Most stories were originally published individually in the Argentine newspaper Critica between 1933 and 1934.
  • Ángel Flores, in his influential 1954 study of "magical realism", set the beginning of the movement with this book. (Wikipedia)

  • Publication date from Amazon UK as of 2016-02-16.
  • Borges's 'Index of Sources' for the stories is on page 79.
  • Contains three essays by Andrew Hurley that earlier appeared in his translation of Collected Fictions.

Year Reviewer Publication
1999 Marc Berley Commentary, July-August 1999

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A Universal History of Iniquity Cover 2004 Penguin Books (US) Trade Paperback Collection M. C. Escher xii+100