Ficciones

The seventeen pieces of Ficciones demonstrate the gigantic powers of imagination, intelligence and style of one of the greatest writers of this or any other century. Borges sends us on a journey to a fascinating, strange and deeply resonant realm; We enter the fearsome sphere of Pascal's abyss, the surreal and literal labyrinth of books and the iconography of eternal return. More fun and accessible than the fictions themselves are Borges's Prologues, brief clarifications that offer the uninitiated a passage into the whirlwind of Borges's genius and reflect the precision and power of his intellect and inventiveness, his piercing irony, his skepticism and his obsession with fantasy. Entering the worlds of Ficciones is entering the mind of Jorge Luis Borges, where Heaven, Hell and everything else is found.

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Anachronisms, speculative fiction, subjective idealism, duodecimals, aneurysms, adjectives, hermeticism, philanthropy, cabala, persecution, life and social customs, books in the Spanish language, readers, translations into English, Spanish language, fiction, Spanish fiction, modern fiction, literary criticism, general fiction, general, fiction (fictional works by a single author), Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986, literature Latin American, translations into English, romance literature, ARGENTINE STORIES, Spanish fiction in Spanish, materials in the Italian language, Argentine stories, uses and customs, Argentine novels, Spanish stories, Argentine science fiction, novel, social life and customs, storiesPeople

Jorge Luis Borges, Adolfo Bioy Casares, Herbert Ashe, Ezra Buckley, Jesus Christ, Faucigny LucingePlaces

Argentina, Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius, Buenos Aires, Lucerne, London, United StatesTimes

20th century, 1935-1947, 17th century, 1947, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1944Showing 10 featured editions. See all 78 editions?

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"I owe the discovery of Uqbar to the conjunction of a mirror and an encyclopedia."

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Job Description

A collection of his short stories in which Borges often uses the labyrinth as a literary device to expose his ideas about all aspects of human life and endeavor.

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Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius