by Jorge Luis Borges, Adolfo Bioy Casares · Relógio d'Água · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789727080304
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«Doze Figuras do Mundo e Outros Contos» is a collection of short stories by Jorge Luis Borges and Adolfo Bioy Casares, in paperback (133 pages, in Portuguese).
The volume brings together detective stories signed under the pseudonym Bustos Domecq. The title story opens with Aquiles Molinari waking among the signs of the zodiac, watching a stranger on the corner and shaving while whistling a tango; the atmosphere combines mystery, absurdity and humor.
Published by Relógio d'Água in 1985; the work originally appeared in 1942 as «Seis problemas para don Isidro Parodi».
For readers of classic detective fiction and followers of Borges and Bioy Casares; puzzles with an ironic tone and detective humor.
Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator regarded as a key figure in Spanish-language and international literature. His best-known works, Ficciones (transl. Fictions) and El Aleph, published in the 1940s, are collections of short stories exploring motifs such as dreams, labyrinths, chance, infinity, archives, mirrors, fictional writers, and mythology. Borges's works have contributed to philosophical literature and the fantasy genre, and have had a major influence on the magical realist movement in 20th century Latin American literature.
