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Published in <i><a href="/wiki/Sur_(magazine)" title="Sur (magazine)">Sur</a></i> in May 1942, it was included in the 1944 collection <i><a href="/wiki/Ficciones" title="Ficciones">Ficciones</a></i>. It was translated into English by <a href="/w/index.php?title=Anthony_Kerrigan&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Anthony Kerrigan (page does not exist)">Anthony Kerrigan</a> and published in <a href="/wiki/New_Mexico_Quarterly" class="mw-redirect" title="New Mexico Quarterly">New Mexico Quarterly</a> (Autumn 1954). A new translation, by <a href="/wiki/Donald_A._Yates" title="Donald A. Yates">Donald A. Yates</a>, was published in <i><a href="/wiki/Labyrinths_(short_story_collection)" title="Labyrinths (short story collection)">Labyrinths (short story collection)</a></i>, <a href="/wiki/New_Directions_Publishing" title="New Directions Publishing">New Directions</a>, 1962. </p><p>In the story, a detective, Erik Lönnrot, attempts to solve a mysterious series of murders which seem to follow a <a href="/wiki/Kabbalistic" class="mw-redirect" title="Kabbalistic">kabbalistic</a> pattern. Appearances are misleading, however. By following what seem to be clues, the detective falls victim to his belief in abstract reason and to the man whom he presumes to be a criminal mastermind. In this way, "Death and the Compass" both observes and inverts the conventions of detective fiction.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Literary critic <a href="/wiki/Harold_Bloom" title="Harold Bloom">Harold Bloom</a> named it his favorite story by Borges.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Plot_summary">Plot summary</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Death_and_the_Compass&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Plot summary"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Lönnrot is a famous detective in an unnamed city that may or may not be <a href="/wiki/Buenos_Aires" title="Buenos Aires">Buenos Aires</a>. When a rabbi is killed in his hotel room on the third of December, Lönnrot is assigned to the case. Based on a cryptic message left on the rabbi's typewriter—"The first letter of the name has been uttered"—the detective determines that the murder was not accidental. He connects this with the <a href="/wiki/Tetragrammaton" title="Tetragrammaton">Tetragrammaton</a>, the unspeakable four-letter name of <a href="/wiki/God" title="God">God</a>, and with his criminal nemesis Red Scharlach. </p><p>Exactly one month later, on the third of January, a second murder takes place with the message "The second letter of the name has been uttered" left at the crime site. Predictably, the same thing happens on the third of February, with the message reading "The last letter of the name has been uttered." </p><p>However, Lönnrot isn't convinced that the spree is at an end, as the Tetragrammaton contains four letters—two of them being the same letter repeated. Furthermore, he surmises that the murders may actually have taken place on the fourth of December, January, and February, respectively, since a new day begins at sunset within the <a href="/wiki/Jewish_calendar" class="mw-redirect" title="Jewish calendar">Jewish calendar</a> (the murders were all committed at night). He predicts that the next month will see one final killing. </p><p>In the meantime, the detective's office receives an anonymous tip to view the locations of the murders on a map, revealing that each coincides to the point of an <a href="/wiki/Equilateral_triangle" title="Equilateral triangle">equilateral triangle</a>. Recognizing that the southern end of the city has yet to be terrorized, Lönnrot extrapolates that the complete pattern will create a <a href="/wiki/Rhombus" title="Rhombus">rhombus</a> (the south <a href="/wiki/The_South_(short_story)" title="The South (short story)">appears frequently</a> in Borges's writings as an allusion to the Argentine frontier, and by extension, as a symbol of solitude, lawlessness, and fate). </p><p>Lönnrot arrives at the site a day in advance, prepared to surprise the murderers. He is grabbed in the dark by two henchmen, and Scharlach emerges from the shadows. </p><p>Scharlach reveals that Lönnrot arrested his brother—who then died in prison—and that Scharlach swore to avenge his death. Killing the rabbi was accidental, but Scharlach used Lönnrot's tendency to over-intellectualize (a police report in the newspaper clued him in to the fact that Lönnrot was following a <a href="/wiki/Kabbalistic" class="mw-redirect" title="Kabbalistic">kabbalistic</a> pattern to track the criminals) to lure Lönnrot to this place. Lönnrot becomes calm in the face of his death and declares that Scharlach made his maze too complex: instead of a four sided rhombus it should have been but a single line of murders, with each subsequent murder taking place on the halfway point (A 8 km from B, C 4 km from each, D 2 km from A and C). Lönnrot says that philosophers have been lost on this line, so a simple detective should feel no shame to do the same (a reference to <a href="/wiki/Zeno%27s_paradoxes" title="Zeno's paradoxes">Zeno's Paradox</a>). Scharlach promises that he will trap Lönnrot in this simpler labyrinth in their next "incarnation", and then kills him. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Dramatic_adaptations">Dramatic adaptations</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Death_and_the_Compass&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Dramatic adaptations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>In 1967, <a href="/wiki/The_Firesign_Theatre" title="The Firesign Theatre">The Firesign Theatre</a> performed an adaptation of "Death and the Compass" on Radio Free Oz.</li> <li>In 1976, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Paul_Miller_(film_director)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Paul Miller (film director) (page does not exist)">Paul Miller</a> directed a 33-minute film adaptation of "Death and the Compass" called <i><a href="/wiki/Spiderweb" class="mw-redirect" title="Spiderweb">Spiderweb</a></i> starring <a href="/wiki/Nigel_Hawthorne" title="Nigel Hawthorne">Nigel Hawthorne</a>.</li> <li>In 1984, <a href="/wiki/Alberto_Manguel" title="Alberto Manguel">Alberto Manguel</a> adapted "Death and the Compass" for the <a href="/wiki/CBC_Radio" title="CBC Radio">CBC Radio</a> science fiction series <i><a href="/wiki/Vanishing_Point_(CBC)" title="Vanishing Point (CBC)">Vanishing Point</a></i>.</li> <li>In 1992, <a href="/wiki/Alex_Cox" title="Alex Cox">Alex Cox</a> made a 55-minute English-language adaptation, suitable for television. Four years later, <a href="/wiki/Alex_Cox" title="Alex Cox">Alex Cox</a> turned his first adaptation into <i><a href="/wiki/Death_and_the_Compass_(film)" title="Death and the Compass (film)">Death and the Compass</a></i>, later expanded into a feature film.</li> <li>In 2000, Jorge Leandro Colás directed his own version of the short story for Film Noir Producciones, <i>La Muerte y la Brújula</i>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Death_and_the_Compass&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">David A. Boruchoff, "In Pursuit of the Detective Genre: <i>La muerte y la brújula</i> of Jorge Luis Borges," <i>Inti: Revista de Literatura Hispánica</i>, no. 21 (1985), pp. 13-26.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFBloom,_Harold.1995" class="citation book cs1">Bloom, Harold. 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colspan="2"><div><a href="/wiki/Jorge_Luis_Borges_bibliography" title="Jorge Luis Borges bibliography">Bibliography</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Original<br />short story<br />collections</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><i><a href="/wiki/A_Universal_History_of_Infamy" title="A Universal History of Infamy">A Universal History of Infamy</a></i></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>"<a href="/wiki/Man_on_Pink_Corner" title="Man on Pink Corner">Man on Pink Corner</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/On_Exactitude_in_Science" title="On Exactitude in Science">On Exactitude in Science</a>"</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th 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Quain</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Library_of_Babel" title="The Library of Babel">The Library of Babel</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Garden_of_Forking_Paths" title="The Garden of Forking Paths">The Garden of Forking Paths</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Funes_the_Memorious" title="Funes the Memorious">Funes the Memorious</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Form_of_the_Sword" title="The Form of the Sword">The Form of the Sword</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Theme_of_the_Traitor_and_the_Hero" title="Theme of the Traitor and the Hero">Theme of the Traitor and the Hero</a>"</li> <li>"<a class="mw-selflink selflink">Death and the Compass</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Secret_Miracle" title="The Secret Miracle">The Secret Miracle</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Three_Versions_of_Judas" title="Three Versions of Judas">Three Versions of Judas</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_End_(story)" title="The End (story)">The End</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Sect_of_the_Phoenix" title="The Sect of the Phoenix">The Sect of the Phoenix</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_South_(short_story)" title="The South (short story)">The South</a>"</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><i><a href="/wiki/The_Aleph_(short_story_collection)" class="mw-redirect" title="The Aleph (short story collection)">The Aleph</a></i></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Immortal_(short_story)" title="The Immortal (short story)">The Immortal</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Dead_Man_(short_story)" title="The Dead Man (short story)">The Dead Man</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Theologians" title="The Theologians">The Theologians</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Story_of_the_Warrior_and_the_Captive" title="Story of the Warrior and the Captive">Story of the Warrior and the Captive</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Emma_Zunz" title="Emma Zunz">Emma Zunz</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_House_of_Asterion" title="The House of Asterion">The House of Asterion</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Deutsches_Requiem_(short_story)" title="Deutsches Requiem (short story)">Deutsches Requiem</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Averroes%27s_Search" title="Averroes's Search">Averroes's Search</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Zahir" title="The Zahir">The Zahir</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Writing_of_the_God" title="The Writing of the God">The Writing of the God</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Two_Kings_and_the_Two_Labyrinths" title="The Two Kings and the Two Labyrinths">The Two Kings and the Two Labyrinths</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Wait_(short_story)" title="The Wait (short story)">The Wait</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Man_on_the_Threshold" title="The Man on the Threshold">The Man on the Threshold</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Aleph_(short_story)" title="The Aleph (short story)">The Aleph</a>"</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><i><a href="/wiki/Dreamtigers" title="Dreamtigers">Dreamtigers</a></i></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>"<a href="/wiki/Borges_and_I" title="Borges and I">Borges and I</a>"</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><i>Dr. Brodie's Report</i></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Encounter_(short_story)" title="The Encounter (short story)">The Encounter</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Gospel_According_to_Mark_(short_story)" title="The Gospel According to Mark (short story)">The Gospel According to Mark</a>"</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><i><a href="/wiki/The_Book_of_Sand_(short_story_collection)" title="The Book of Sand (short story 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Time</a>"</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other works</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Historia_de_la_eternidad" title="Historia de la eternidad">Historia de la eternidad</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Borges_on_Mart%C3%ADn_Fierro" title="Borges on Martín Fierro">Borges on Martín Fierro</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Book_of_Imaginary_Beings" title="Book of Imaginary Beings">Book of Imaginary Beings</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Labyrinths_(short_story_collection)" title="Labyrinths (short story collection)">Labyrinths</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Adrogue,_con_ilustraciones_de_Norah_Borges" title="Adrogue, con ilustraciones de Norah Borges">Adrogue, con ilustraciones de Norah Borges</a></i></li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/El_Golem" title="El Golem">El Golem</a>"</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th 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