num_pages: 126
description: At the age of seventy, after a gap of twenty years, Jorge Luis Borges returned to writing short stories. In Brodie's Report, he also returned to the style of his earlier work 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.
language: English
title: Brodie's Report
titlecomplete: Brodie's Report
genres: Fiction, Magical Realism, Short Stories, Spanish Literature, Latin American, Literature, Latin American Literature, Classics, 20th Century, Fantasy
ratings_count: 5224
publisher: Penguin Classics