Contents -- Preface to the Revised Edition -- Preface to the 1981 Edition -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Page References -- Chronology -- PART I. Borges's Worlds -- Chapter One. Buenos Aires and Beyond -- Chapter Two. A Sort of Life, a Special Mind -- Chapter Three. What Borges Did for Prose Fiction -- PART II. Borges's Fictions -- Chapter Four. The Apprentice Fiction Maker -- Chapter Five. Ficciones I: Doubles, Dreamers, and Detectives -- Chapter Six. Ficciones II: The World Within a Book -- Chapter Seven. El Aleph I: Doubles and Puzzles -- Chapter Eight. El Aleph II: Tales of Action and Violence -- Chapter Nine. El Aleph III: The Visionary Experience -- PART III. Borges's Place in Literature -- Chapter Ten. Dreamtigers and Later Works: A Tentative Summation -- Chapter Eleven. Literature and Politics North and South -- Chapter Twelve. Borges as Argentine Author: And other Self-Evident (If Often Ignored) Truths -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.