The Encounter (short story)

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"The Encounter"
Short story by Jorge Luis Borges
Original title	El encuentro
Country	Argentina
Language	Spanish
Genre(s)	Fantasy, short story
Publication
Published in	Imprenta de Francisco A. Colombo, Buenos Aires
Media type	Print
Publication date	1969

"The Encounter" (original Spanish title: "El encuentro") is a 1969 short story by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges and later included in the collection "Dr. Brodie's Report", first published in 1970^[1]

References

↑ Bellman, Samuel I. (1974). "Jorge Luis Borges: "Doctor Brodie's Report" (Book Review)". Studies in Short Fiction. 11 (2): 205. ProQuest 1297934317.

Jorge Luis Borges

Bibliography

Original
short story
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" "Biography of Tadeo Isidoro Cruz" "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"
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"

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