Six Problems of Don Isidro Author:Jorge Luis Borges, Adolfo Bioy-Casares, Norman Thomas di Giovanni (Translator) H. Bustos Domecq is the pseudonymous author of the book, the first fruit of the collaboration of Borges and Bioy Casares. — In the first story, Parodi, who is himself in jail for murder, has to solve a murder that turns out to have been committed by the young man who comes to him for help. In the second story, the murder takes place aboard an exp... more »ress train. One of the characters is a mediocre writer named Gervasio Montenegro, full of cliches and French bon mots. In "Tadeo Limardo's Victim," the murdered man prepares his own death to diguise a suicide. "Tai An's Lang Search" is a variation on Poe's "The Purloined Letter." In "Free Will and the Commendatore," a cuckold takes elaborate and invisible revenge on his wife's bastard offspring. Comic in intent and pointedly satirical, the book is an essential key to understanding Borges's development as a writer.
The six stories are: The Twelve Figures of the World, The Nights of Goliadkin. The God of the Bulls, Free Will and the Commendadore, Tadeo Limardo's Victim, and Tai An's Long Search. Foreword by Gervasio Montenegro. Afterword is "H. Bustos Domecq by Adelma Badoglio".« less