Dreamtigers, first published in 1960 as El Hacedor ("The Maker"), is a collection of poems, short essays, and literary sketches by the Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo , known as Jorge Luis Borges , was an Argentine writer, essayist, poet and translator born in Buenos Aires. In 1914 his family moved to Switzerland where he attended school, receiving his baccalauréat from the Collège de Genève in 1918. The family...

. Divided fairly evenly between prose and verse, the collection examines the limitations of creativity. Borges regarded Dreamtigers as his most personal work. In the view of Mortimer Adler

Mortimer Adler

Mortimer Jerome Adler was an American philosopher, educator, and popular author. As a philosopher he worked within the Aristotelian and Thomistic traditions. He lived for the longest stretches in New York City, Chicago, San Francisco, and San Mateo, California...

, editor of the Great Books of the Western World

Great Books of the Western World

Great Books of the Western World is a series of books originally published in the United States in 1952 by Encyclopædia Britannica Inc. to present the western canon in a single package of 54 volumes. The series is now in its second edition and contains 60 volumes.-History:The project got its start...

 series, the collection was a masterpiece of 20th century literature. Literary critic Harold Bloom

Harold Bloom

Harold Bloom is an American writer and literary critic, and is Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University. He is known for his defense of 19th-century Romantic poets, his unique and controversial theories of poetic influence, and his prodigious literary output, particularly for a literary...

 includes it in his Western Canon.

The original Spanish title refers to the Scots

Scots language

Scots is the Germanic language variety spoken in Lowland Scotland and parts of Ulster . It is sometimes called Lowland Scots to distinguish it from Scottish Gaelic, the Celtic language variety spoken in most of the western Highlands and in the Hebrides.Since there are no universally accepted...

 word makar

Makar

A makar is a term from Scottish literature for a poet or bard, often thought of as royal court poet, although the term can be more generally applied. The word functions in a manner similar to the Greek term which means both maker and poet...

, meaning "poet".

Poems

Spanish title	English title
"El hacedor"	"The Maker"
"Dreamtigers"	"Dreamtigers"
"Diálogo sobre un diálogo"	"A Dialog About a Dialog"
"Las uñas"	"Toenails"
"Los espejos velados"	"Covered Mirrors"
"Argumentum ornitologicum"	"Argumentum Ornithologicum"
"El cautivo"	"The Captive"
"El simulacro"	"The Mountebank"
"Delia Elena San Marco"	"Delia Elena San Marco"
"Diálogo de muertos"	"A Dialog Between Dead Men"
"La trama"	"The Plot"
"Un problema"	"A Problem"
"Una rosa amarilla"	"The Yellow Rose"
"El testigo"	"The Witness"
"Martín Fierro"	"Martín Fierro"
"Mutations"	"Mutations"
"Parábola de Cervantes y del Quijote"	"Parable of Cervantes and the Quixote"
"Paradiso XXXI, 108"	"Paradiso XXXI, 108"
"Parábola del palacio"	"Parable of the Palace"
"Everything and Nothing"	"Everything and Nothing"
"Ragnarök"	"Ragnarök"
"Inferno, I, 32"	"Inferno, I, 32"
"Borges y yo Borges and I "Borges and I" is a short story by the Argentine writer and poet, Jorge Luis Borges. It is one of the stories in the short story collection, The Maker , first published in 1960.-Analysis:Borges explores the concept of Self as being separate from the public persona perceived by readers through his... "	"Borges and I"

External links

• The Floating Library has a complete English translation of Dreamtigers.
• University of Texas Press