sentences:  Anthony Kerrigan previously translated the similar work Cuentos Breves y Extraordinarios as "Extraordinary Tales," published by Herder & Herder in 1971.The 1988 Viking Penguin edition for English-speaking countries includes a foreword by Ursula K. Le Guin.The idea and seed for this volume came into being one "night in 1937 in Buenos Aires, when Jorge Luis Borges, Adolfo Bioy Casares, and Silvina Ocampo fell to talking - so Casares tells us - 'about fantastic literature.