The Aleph
by Jorge Luis Borges | 
Blow Up and Other Stories
by Julio Cortazar |
The Book of Sand
by Jorge Luis Borges |
A Certain Lucas
by Julio Cortazar |
End of the Game
by Julio Cortazar |
A Universal History of Infamy
by Jorge Luis Borges |
Brodie's Report
by Jorge Luis Borges | 
The Book of Sand and Shakespeare's Memory
by Jorge Luis Borges | 
Ficciones
by Jorge Luis Borges | 
Collected Stories
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez | 
Strange Pilgrims
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez | 
Collected Fictions
by Jorge Luis Borges | 
The old forest
by Peter Taylor |
Extraordinary Tales
by Adolfo Bioy Casares |
Finding a Girl in America
by Andre Dubus | 
Pigeon Feathers and Other Stories
by John Updike | 
The Complete Short Stories Of Ernest Hemingway
by Ernest Hemingway |
Malgudi Days
by R. K. Narayan | 
Collected Stories
by Raymond Carver | 
The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories
by Ernest Hemingway |
"The Instruction Manual," the first chapter, is an absurd assortment of tasks and items dissected in an instruction-manual format. "Unusual Occupations," the second chapter, describes the obsessions and predilections of the narrator's family, including the lodging of a tiger-just one tiger- "for the sole purpose of seeing the mechanism at work in all its complexity." Finally, the "Cronopios and Famas" section delightfully characterizes, in the words of Carlos Fuentes, "those enemies of pomposity, academic rigor mortis and cardboard celebrity-a band of literary Marx Brothers."