I totally concur with the previous reviewer that this is a very disappointing book. The main reason I write another negative review is because apart from loving Borges' books, I also love crime and mystery novels. I always have a Borges book on the go; reading and rereading his fictions, poems and essays. Despite that I was extremely bored by this book. As a matter of fact I had great difficulty reading more than a few pages at a time as it was sending me to sleep every time. This is parody as it is signaled by the title, which for some reason is not given fully by amazon; the full title is Six Problems for Don Isidro Parodi. Perhaps the parody can be appreciated by those who know Argentine events and culture in the 40s but if so, such in-jokes were lost to me.