A story in this collection ends with a corpse being displayed in a store window for four days before being properly buried.
A story in this collection ends with a corpse being displayed in a store window for four days before being properly buried. After declaring that charity is inessential because salvation is gained by faith alone, a man watches the exact copy of his earthly house in which he lives in heaven begin to fade and rot, in this collection's story "A Theologian in Death," part of its section of miscellany marked "Et cetera." After watching streams of dragon-shaped fireworks being launched from ships, a character in this collection surrenders (*) herself to imperial Chinese authorities and spends the remainder of her life smuggling opium. This collection's stories "The Widow Ching, Lady Pirate" and "The Disinterested Killer Bill Harrigan" respectively star Ching Shih and Billy the Kid. For 10 points, name this collection of fictionalized biographies of real-life criminals, written by Borges.
A story in this collection ends with a corpse being displayed in a store window for four days before being properly buried.
A Universal History of Infamy [or A Universal History of Iniquity; or Historia universal de la infamia]