Jorge Luis Borges: Ficciones

FICTIONS is perhaps the single most mysterious and extraordinary collection of short stories written this century. Influenced by writers as disparate as Lewis Carroll, Stevenson and Cervantes, Borges is nethertheless a complete original who can tu...

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Stories deal with an unusual garden, an enormous library, authorship, language, memory, philosophy, and the art of writing.

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First published in 1945, his "Ficciones" compressed several centuries' worth of philosophy and poetry into 17 tiny, unclassifiable pieces of prose. Borges offered up diabolical tigers, imaginary encyclopedias, ontological detective stori...

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By common consent, the Argentinian Jorge Luis Borges (18990-1986) is one of the greatest writers to have emerged from Latin America. His finest work is "Ficciones" (1944), a collection of brilliantly-crafted, essay-like short stories. Th...

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Diecisiete relatos breves que abren un mundo de reflexiones sobre las convenciones de lectura y el modo de entender larealidad. Pens n un laberinto, en un sinuoso laberinto creciente que abarcara el pasado y el porvenir y que implicara de alg n mo...

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