For this volume we have chosen five stories that are further proof of his effectiveness and variety. Only towards the end of The House of Mapuhi does the reader realize who the true protagonist is; The Law of Life presents us with an atrocious destiny accepted by all with naturalness and also almost with innocence; Lost Face is the salvation of a man under torture by a terrible artiface; The Minions of Midas details the pitiless methods of a group of anarchists; The Shadow and the Flash renews and enriches and old motif in literature: the possibility of being invisible.

- Jorge Luis Borges