| "The Approach to Al-Mu'tasim" | |
|---|---|
| Short story by Jorge Luis Borges | |
| Original title | El acercamiento a Almotásim |
| Translator | Anthony Bonner |
| Country | Argentina |
| Language | Spanish |
| Genre(s) | Metafictional short story |
| Publication | |
| Published in | Historia de la eternidad (1936) Ficciones (1944) |
| Media type | |
| Publication date | 1936 |
| Published in English | 1962 |
"The Approach to Al-Mu'tasim" (original Spanish title: "El acercamiento a Almotásim") is a fantasy short story written in 1935 by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges. In his autobiographical essay, Borges wrote about "The Approach to Al-Mu'tasim", "it now seems to me to foreshadow and even to set the pattern for those tales that were somehow awaiting me, and upon which my reputation as a storyteller was to be based."[1]