The Invention of Morel and Other Stories from La trama celeste
( Spanish - La invención de Morel / La trama celeste - 1940 / 1948 )
collection by
translated by Ruth L.C. Simms
Published: University of Texas Press - hardback - 1964
ISBN: none
New York Review of Books - trade paperback - 2003 ( 'NYRB Classis' - contains only the Prologue & Morel )
ISBN: 1590170571 / 9781590170571
contents
Prologue ( The Invention of Morel and Other Stories from La trama celeste ) - essay by Jorge Luís Borges
+ The Invention of Morel - novel ( aka La invención de Morel 1940 ) In Memory of Pauline - short story ( aka En memoria de Paulina 1948 )
The Future Kings - short story ( aka De los reyes futures 1948 )
The Idol - novelette ( aka El idolo 1948 )
The Celestial Plot - short story ( aka La trama celeste 1948 )
The Other Labyrinth - short story ( aka El otro laberinto 1948 )
The Perjury of the Snow - short story ( aka El perjurio de la niece 1948 )
+ synopsis
A fugitive hides on a deserted island somewhere in Polynesia. Tourists arrive, and his fear of being discovered becomes a mixed emotion when he falls in love with one of them. He wants to tell her his feelings, but an anomalous phenomenon keeps them apart.
( Spanish - La invención de Morel / La trama celeste - 1940 / 1948 )
collection by
translated by Ruth L.C. Simms
Published: University of Texas Press - hardback - 1964
ISBN: none
New York Review of Books - trade paperback - 2003 ( 'NYRB Classis' - contains only the Prologue & Morel )
ISBN: 1590170571 / 9781590170571
contents
Prologue ( The Invention of Morel and Other Stories from La trama celeste ) - essay by Jorge Luís Borges
+ The Invention of Morel - novel ( aka La invención de Morel 1940 ) In Memory of Pauline - short story ( aka En memoria de Paulina 1948 )
The Future Kings - short story ( aka De los reyes futures 1948 )
The Idol - novelette ( aka El idolo 1948 )
The Celestial Plot - short story ( aka La trama celeste 1948 )
The Other Labyrinth - short story ( aka El otro laberinto 1948 )
The Perjury of the Snow - short story ( aka El perjurio de la niece 1948 )
+ synopsis
A fugitive hides on a deserted island somewhere in Polynesia. Tourists arrive, and his fear of being discovered becomes a mixed emotion when he falls in love with one of them. He wants to tell her his feelings, but an anomalous phenomenon keeps them apart.