Works. Volume II

This edition brings together two late collections of short stories by Jorge Luis Borges – "Brodie's Report" and "The Book of Sand", in which the master of short prose returns to deliberate simplicity of form, without abandoning depth and philosophical richness. These texts are reflections on power and violence, memory and oblivion, chance and fate, on the limits of human knowledge and the danger of absolute knowledge.

Borges's characters are ordinary people and legendary figures, chroniclers and witnesses of strange events who encounter a mystery that cannot be fully exhausted. A special place is given to the motif of the book as an infinite and threatening object – a symbol of a world in which meaning always eludes.

The Belarusian translation from Spanish by Siarhei Shupa preserves the transparency and conciseness of late Borges, his restrained irony, and precision of thought.

The book will be of interest to readers already familiar with Borges's work, as well as to those who wish to discover his late, wise, and disturbingly calm voice.