Private book collection

Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) is a cult author of intellectuals, professor honoris causa of the world's leading universities, and guide to the Library of Babylon and almost all the libraries of the world.

The Private Book Collection (1985) contains prefaces written by Jorge Luis Borges to books that were included in his collection of one hundred must-read works. Borges chose these works at his own discretion, but managed to write only sixty-four prefaces to them, because death prevented him from completing what he had planned.

"A book is a thing among things, a volume lost among volumes, of which there are many in an indifferent universe, until it comes across its reader, the person destined for its symbols. ... May God grant that you may be the reader that this book has been waiting for," - these are the words the author addresses to the future reader of this book.