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Dreamtigers

Writings by Jorge Luis Borges

First English edition
(publ. University of Texas Press)

Dreamtigers (El Hacedor, "The Maker", 1960) is a collection of poems, short essays and literary sketches by the Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges. Divided fairly evenly between prose and verse, the collection examines the limitations of creativity. Borges regarded Dreamtigers as his most personal work. In the view of Mortimer Adler, editor of the Great Books of the Western World series, the collection was a masterpiece of 20th-century literature. Literary critic Harold Bloom includes it in his Western Canon.

The original Spanish title refers to the Scots word makar, meaning "poet".^[1]

Works

Spanish title	English title
"El hacedor"	"The Maker"
"Dreamtigers"	"Dreamtigers"
"Diálogo sobre un diálogo"	"A Dialog About a Dialog"
"Las uñas"	"Toenails"
"Los espejos velados"	"Covered Mirrors"
"Argumentum ornitologicum"	"Argumentum Ornithologicum"
"El cautivo"	"The Captive"
"El simulacro"	"The Mountebank"
"Delia Elena San Marco"	"Delia Elena San Marco"
"Diálogo de muertos"	"A Dialog Between Dead Men"
"La trama"	"The Plot"
"Un problema"	"A Problem"
"Una rosa amarilla"	"The Yellow Rose"
"El testigo"	"The Witness"
"Martín Fierro"	"Martín Fierro"
"Mutations"	"Mutations"
"Parábola de Cervantes y del Quijote"	"Parable of Cervantes and the Quixote"
"Paradiso XXXI, 108"	"Paradiso XXXI, 108"
"Parábola del palacio"	"Parable of the Palace"
"Everything and Nothing"	"Everything and Nothing"
"Ragnarök"	"Ragnarök"
"Inferno, I, 32"	"Inferno, I, 32"
"Borges y yo"	"Borges and I"

Notes

^ Jorge Luis Borges. The Aleph and other stories, 1933–1969: together with commentaries and an autobiographical essay. E. P. Dutton, 1978. Page 277.
Norman Thomas Di Giovanni. The lesson of the master: on Borges and his work. Continuum International Publishing Group, 2003. Pages 164–5.

External links

The Floating Library has a complete English translation of Dreamtigers.
University of Texas Press

Jorge Luis Borges

Bibliography

Original
collections

A Universal History of Infamy	"Man on Pink Corner" "On Exactitude in Science"
Ficciones	"Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" "The Approach to Al-Mu'tasim" "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote" "The Circular Ruins" "The Lottery in Babylon" "An Examination of the Work of Herbert Quain" "The Library of Babel" "The Garden of Forking Paths" "Funes the Memorious" "The Form of the Sword" "Theme of the Traitor and the Hero" "Death and the Compass" "The Secret Miracle" "Three Versions of Judas" "The End" "The Sect of the Phoenix" "The South"
The Aleph	"The Immortal" "The Dead Man" "The Theologians" "Story of the Warrior and the Captive" "Emma Zunz" "The House of Asterion" "Deutsches Requiem" "Averroes's Search" "The Zahir" "The Writing of the God" "The Two Kings and the Two Labyrinths" "The Wait" "The Man on the Threshold" "The Aleph"
Otras Inquisiciones (1937–1952)	"The Analytical Language of John Wilkins"
Dreamtigers	"Borges and I"
Dr. Brodie's Report	"The Encounter" "The Gospel According to Mark"
The Book of Sand	"The Other" "Ulrikke" "The Congress" "There Are More Things" "The Disk" "The Book of Sand"
Shakespeare's Memory	"Blue Tigers" "Shakespeare's Memory"