“The Universal Library”
#fantasy
10 quotes
“Hakim, the Masked Dyer of Merv”
“The masked dyer Hakim of Merv”
“The Approach to Al”
“The Improbable Impostor Tom Castro”
“Reading … is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual. Universal History of Infamy [Historia universal de la infamia] (1935) Preface”
“That one individual should awaken in another memories that belong to still a third is an obvious paradox. Evaristo Carriego (1930) Ch. 2”
“A Poem by Oscar Wilde”
“The Argentine Writer and Tradition”
“If the pages of this book contain some successful verse, the reader must excuse me the discourtesy of having usurped it first. Our nothingness differs little; it is a trivial and chance circumstance that you should be the reader of these exercises and I their author. "To the Reader" ["A quien leyere"], preface to Fervor of Buenos Aires [ Fervor de Buenos Aires ]”