Historia universal de la infamia

Published in 1935, A Universal History of Infamy is an early collection of Borges, mixing short narratives about rogues, pirates, gangsters, impostors and killers from different times and places, among them the American West, Japan and the Mississippi. He freely retells and embroiders his sources, so the line between fact and invention becomes blurred. The book is light, vivid and ironic, and it is often seen as the first sign of his mature fiction. A short section of brief pieces on other subjects follows.