This author wrote a story inspired by Lewis Carroll's Sylvie and Bruno Concluded that notes how "animals and beggars" now inhabit the "tattered ruins" of an object that remains the only "Relic of the Disciplines of Geography.
In a story by this author, after the painter Clara Glencairn dies of a stroke, a rival contemporary paints a portrait of her, then never paints again. A character created by this author has sex with a sailor from the Nordstjärnan ("nord-SHWAR-nahn") in order to later convince the police that she was raped by the mill owner Aaron Loewenthal, whom she shoots in order to avenge the suicide of her father. This author wrote a story inspired by Lewis Carroll's Sylvie and Bruno Concluded that notes how "animals and beggars" now inhabit the "tattered ruins" of an object that remains the only "Relic of the Disciplines of Geography." In a story by this author, Carlos Daneri attempts to write a poem describing every inch of Earth using the title point of space located in his cellar. For 10 points, name this author of "Emma Zunz," "On Exactitude in Science," and "The Aleph," a blind Argentinian who also wrote "The Library of Babel."
In a story by this author, after the painter Clara Glencairn dies of a stroke, a rival contemporary paints a portrait of her, then never paints again.
Jorge Luis Borges [the first story is “The Duel"] &lt;Short Fiction&gt;