The Wait (short story)

The Wait
by Jorge Luis Borges
Original title	"La espera"
Country	Argentina
Language	Spanish
Genre(s)	Mystery, thriller short story
Published in	La Nación
Media type	Print
Publication date	27 August 1950

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"The Wait" (original Spanish title: "La espera") is a 1950 short story by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges. David Foster Wallace referred to the story as "marvelous".^[1]

References[]

^ Wallace, David Foster (7 November 2004). "Borges on the Couch". The New York Times. Retrieved 11 February 2020.

Jorge Luis Borges

Bibliography

Original
collections

A Universal History of Infamy	"Man on Pink Corner" "On Exactitude in Science"
Ficciones	"Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" "The Approach to Al-Mu'tasim" "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote" "The Circular Ruins" "The Lottery in Babylon" "An Examination of the Work of Herbert Quain" "The Library of Babel" "The Garden of Forking Paths" "Funes the Memorious" "The Form of the Sword" "Theme of the Traitor and the Hero" "Death and the Compass" "The Secret Miracle" "Three Versions of Judas" "The End" "The Sect of the Phoenix" "The South"
The Aleph	"The Immortal" "The Dead Man" "The Theologians" "Story of the Warrior and the Captive" "Emma Zunz" "The House of Asterion" "Deutsches Requiem" "Averroes's Search" "The Zahir" "The Writing of the God" "The Two Kings and the Two Labyrinths" "The Wait" "The Man on the Threshold" "The Aleph"
Otras Inquisiciones (1937–1952)	"The Analytical Language of John Wilkins"
Dreamtigers	"Borges and I"
Dr. Brodie's Report	"The Encounter" "The Gospel According to Mark"
The Book of Sand	"The Other" "Ulrikke" "The Congress" "There Are More Things" "The Disk" "The Book of Sand"
Shakespeare's Memory	"Blue Tigers" "Shakespeare's Memory"

Other works

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