Emma Zunz- Jorge Luis BorgesWhilereturningfromthetextilefactoryofTarbuchandLoewenthal onthefourteenthofJanuary, !"", Emma Zunz found at the bac# of the entrance hall a letter dated in Brazil bywhich she #new her father had died$ The seal and the en%elo&e fooled her at first' then shebecame discomfited by the un#nown handwriting$(ine or ten scribbled lines sought to fill u&the &age' Emma read that )e*or +aier had ingested a strong dose of %eronal by mista#e anddied on the third of the current month in the hos&ital in Bag,$ The letter was signed by acom&anion from her father-s boarding house, a certain .ein /-.ain of the 0io 1rande, whocould not ha%e #nown that he was addressing the daughter of the deceased$ 2er first sentimentwas indis&osition in her stomach and #nees' then she felt blind guilt, unreality, cold, fear' thenshe wanted it to be the next day already$)he understoodright afterward that this wish wasuseless because her father-s death was the only thing that had ha&&ened in the world and thatwould#ee&ha&&eningwithout end$ )heretrie%edthe&a&erandwenttoherroom$ )hefurti%ely guarded it in a drawer, as if, otherwise, it would meet other ends$ )he had alreadystarted to see them loom' &erha&s she was already as she would be$3n the growing dar#ness, Emma cried until the end of the day of the suicide of +anuel +aier,who was Emanuel Zunz in the old, ha&&y days$ )he remembered summer %acations on asmall farmnear1ualeguay,remembered4triedtoremember5hermother,rememberedthehouse in Lan6s that they auctioned off, remembered the yellow lozenge &anes of a window,remembered the &rison sentence and the o&&robrium, remembered the anonymous letters withthe news&a&er cli&&ing on 7the cashier-s embezzlement,8 remembered 4but this actually shene%er forgot5 that her father, that last night, had sworn to her that the thief was Loewenthal$Loewenthal, 9aron Loewenthal, &re%iously the factory manager and now one of the owners$Emma had guarded this secret since !:$)he had re%ealed it to no one, not e%en to her bestfriend, Elsa ;rstein$