Counterparts (short story) youngest son, Tom, to make dinner but as the child lets the fire in the kitchen go out, Farrington's rage explodes and he starts beating the little child with a walking stick. The story ends with Tom pleading for mercy. For Joyce's contemporaneous audience, the term "counterparts" could be expected to suggest (hand-written) duplicate copies of documents concerning the office's business. Counterparts (short story) "Counterparts" is a short story by James Joyce published in his 1914 collection "Dubliners". The story recounts an evening in the life of a man named Farrington, frequently referred to simply as "the man". Farrington’s difficulties
Shakespeare's Memory (short story collection) Shakespeare's Memory (short story collection) Shakespeare's Memory (original Spanish title: ) is a short story collection published in 1983 that collects the last stories by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges, which had been published in diverse mediums, such as the national newspapers "La Nación" and "Clarín". It was published three years before the author's death. An English translation of the stories by Andrew Hurley was published in "Collected Fictions". The collection contains only four short stories, making it Borges' shortest anthology. These are (original titles in italics): "August 25, 1983", the first story of the collection, is about Borges encountering