Shakespeare's Memory (original Spanish title: La memoria de Shakespeare) 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.
An English translation of the stories by Andrew Hurley was published in Collected Fictions.
[4] In "Blue Tigers", the narrator gets hold of a group of mysterious blue stones whose number continuously multiplies and divides when one is not looking (retaking the themes of his previous stories "The Zahir", "The Disk", and "The Book of Sand": a direct confrontation with the inconceivable, in the form of an impossible object).
[1][3] And finally, the titular story "Shakespeare's Memory" (Borges' last story)[5][6] is about a man who is given the memory of William Shakespeare,[4] enabling him to peer into the playwright's most secret thoughts, but also overloading him to the point of slowly forgetting his own life.
[1][6][7] Borges got the idea for this last story when, at eighty years of age, he dreamed that a faceless man offered him the memory of Shakespeare in a hotel room.