The Dead Man (short story)

"The Dead Man"
Short story by Jorge Luis Borges
Original titleEl Muerto
CountryArgentina
LanguageSpanish
Genre(s)Fantasy, short story
Publication
Publication typeAnthology
Media typePrint
Publication dateNovember 1946

"The Dead Man" (original Spanish title: "El Muerto") is a short story by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges. It was first published in the magazine Sur (#145) in November 1946 and appears in the 1949 short story collection The Aleph.