The first fruit of the collaboration of Borges and his long-time friend Bioy-Casares, Six Problems for Don Isidro Parodi appeared originally under the pseudonym of H. Bustos Domecq. and “Bugsy’s and ” prose style is not quite the style of either of the collaborators, but in this volume, at least, and “he never got out of hand, and ” as Borges complained he did later.In the first story, Parodi, who is himself in jail for homicide, is visited by a young man who seeks his help in solving a particularly baffling murder. In the second story, a killing takes place aboard an express train. One of the characters is a writer named Gervasio Montenegro, whom the discerning reader will identify as author of the book’s expressive foreword. In and “Tadeo Limardo’s Victim, and ” a murdered man prepares for his own death. and “Tai An’s Long Search and ” is a variation on Poe’s and “The Purloined Letter. and ” In and “Free Will and the Commendatore, and ” a cuckold takes elaborate and invisible revenge.The book also includes a short biography of H. Bustos Domecq by Adelma Badoglio, a provincial schoolteacher.Comic in intent, and pointedly satirical, Six Problems for Don Isidro Parodi is an essential key to understanding Borges’ development as a writer.

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