Borges The Short Stories Part Two

Author's name: Jorge Luis Borges Publisher: Jamal Publications for Publishing and Distribution Year of publication: 2023 Literary classification: Short story collection Book overview: "We discovered, my dear friend Paulino Quinces, who obtained for me the first volume of One Thousand and One Nights (London, 1840) in Lane's translation, the manuscript which I will now translate into the Castilian language. The fine handwriting – which is the art that typewriters teach us to waste – indicates that the manuscript was created around that time. Lane, according to what is known, indulged in lengthy explanatory notes; the margins are filled with his additions, question marks, and sometimes some corrections, which he wrote in the same handwriting as the manuscript itself. It will be said that the reader of the manuscript cared less about the wonders of Scheherazade's stories than about Islamic customs. As for David Brody, whose signature adorns the bottom of the text with a mark, I could find nothing about him except that he was a Scottish evangelist, descended from Aberdine, who preached Christianity in Central Africa, and later in some forested areas of Brazil, a land that his knowledge of the Portuguese language led him to. I do not know his date of death or its place. According to my knowledge, the manuscript was never handed over to the printer..."