''Dreamtigers'' (''El Hacedor'', "The Maker", 1960) is a collection of poems, short essays and literary sketches by the Argentine author

Jorge Luis Borges Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo (; ; 24 August 1899 – 14 June 1986) was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, as well as a key figure in Spanish-language and international literature. His best-known b ...

. Divided fairly evenly between prose and verse, the collection examines the limitations of creativity. Borges regarded ''Dreamtigers'' as his most personal work. In the view of

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, editor of the ''

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'' series, the collection was a masterpiece of 20th-century literature. Literary critic

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includes it in his ''

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''. The original Spanish title refers to the Scots word ''

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'', meaning "poet".Jorge Luis Borges. ''The Aleph and other stories, 1933–1969: together with commentaries and an autobiographical essay''. E. P. Dutton, 1978. Page 277.
Norman Thomas Di Giovanni. ''The lesson of the master: on Borges and his work''. Continuum International Publishing Group, 2003. Pages 164–5.

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The Floating Library
has a complete English translation of ''Dreamtigers''.

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