Includes selections from Viking's "Collected Fictions" and the forthcoming "Collected Poems". Simultaneous release with the hardcover from Viking. Abridged. Man on pink corner—The lottery in Babylon—The garden of forking paths—death and the compass—The Aleph—The maker—Dreamtigers—Parable of Cervantes and the Quixote—The story of Rosendo Juarez—Borge and I—The Zahir—August 25, 1983 — Shakespeare's memory—The circular ruins—The library of Babel—The immortal—The encounter.