Brodie's Report

At the age of seventy after a gap of twenty years Jorge Luis Borges returned to writing short stories. In Brodie’s Report he returned also to the style of his earlier years with its brutal realism nightmares and bloodshed. Many of these stories including “Unworthy” and “The Other Duel” are set in the macho Argentinean underworld and even the rivalries between artists are suffused with suppressed violence. Throughout opposing themes of fate and free will loyalty and betrayal time and memory flicker in the recesses of these compelling stories among the best Borges ever wrote.. For more than seventy years Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1700 titles Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.