Each story tells the life of some character with delinquent behavior, however, I feel that Borges, with that genius that characterized him, knew how to place the reader from a position far enough away to witness the barbarities that the protagonist of the narration commits, but close enough to feel the impact of their behavior against the universal values of truth, honor and justice, among others.

"Unos cien héroes vagamente distintos de las fotografías que estará desvaneciéndose en los prontuarios, unos cien héroes saturados de humo de tabaco y de alcohol, unos cien héroes de sombreros de paja con cintas de colores, tan insignificantes o espléndidos como los de Troya o Junín".

"A hundred or so vaguely different heroes from the photographs that will be fading into criminal records, a hundred or so heroes saturated with tobacco smoke and alcohol, a hundred or so heroes in straw hats with ribbons of colors, as insignificant or splendid as those of Troy or Junín".

Las fuentes y la mente. / The Sources and the mind.

Al final de la obra, Borges presenta fuentes bibliográficas de donde invocó los eventos que narra en cada cuento. Debo agregar que, como experiencia personal, cuando tuve la oportunidad de ver la película "Pandillas de Nueva York" de Martin Scorsese, (Con la que, en mi opinión debió ganar el Oscar y no con "Los Infiltrados", pero eso será otra historia😁) el sentimiento de placentero "déjà vu" fue muy intenso: ya había leído este libro y el cuento "El proveedor de iniquidades Monk Eastman" conectaba en forma perfecta toda la fenomenología que Scorsese presentaba en la película, lo cual era totalmente lógico, ya que la fuente de inspiración del escritor y del director de cine eran la misma: el libro "Las pandillas de Nueva York" de Herbert Ashbury (1928).

At the end of the work, Borges presents bibliographical sources from which he invoked the events narrated in each story. I must add that, as a personal experience, when I had the opportunity to watch the movie "Gangs of New York" by Martin Scorsese, (with which, in my opinion, he should have won the Oscar and not with "The Departed", but that will be another history😁) the feeling of pleasant "déjà vu" was very intense: I had already read this book and the story "The Purveyor of Iniquities Monk Eastman" perfectly connected all the phenomenology that Scorsese presented in the film, which was totally logical , since the source of inspiration for the writer and the film director were the same: the book "The Gangs of New York" by Herbert Ashbury (1928).

Finalmente. / Finnaly.

Consiga y lea este libro: en este breve escrito intento honrar el genio de Borges y seguramente lo hago mal. Solamente se le puede honrar leyéndolo y captando la magia críptica de su prosa, mostrando claramente que fue sincero y categórico cuando dijo "Que otros se jacten de las páginas que han escrito; a mí me enorgullecen las que he leído". Borges definitivamente hizo prodigios con narraciones anteriores que de no haber sido tocadas por su pluma, habrían caído quizás en el olvido, que al final es el verdadero cementerio de las letras muertas.

Get and read this book: in this short piece I try to honor the genius of Borges and surely I do it wrong. He can only be honored by reading it and grasping the cryptic magic of his prose, clearly showing that he was sincere and adamant when he said "Let others boast of the pages they have written; I am proud of the ones I have read." Borges definitely did wonders with previous narratives that if they had not been touched by his pen, they might have fallen into oblivion, which in the end is the true cemetery of dead letters.

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El libro anterior. / The preview book.

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