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"An Examination of the Work of Herbert Quain"
Short story by Jorge Luis Borges
Original titleExamen de la obra de Herbert Quain
TranslatorAnthony Bonner
CountryArgentina
LanguageSpanish
Genre(s)Metafictional short story
Publication
Published inSur
Media typePrint
Publication dateApril 1941
Published in English1962

"An Examination of the Work of Herbert Quain" (original Spanish title: "Examen de la obra de Herbert Quain") is a 1941 short story by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges. It was included in the anthology Ficciones, part one (The Garden of Forking Paths). The title has also been translated as A Survey of the Works of Herbert Quain.

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