Ficciones

Name: Ficciones
Rating: 4.666666507720947 (18 reviews)

Jorge Luis Borges

May 2015 · Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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“These brief Ficciones have to be read one at a time, and slowly; then they throb with uncanny and haunting power.” —The Atlantic Monthly

The seventeen pieces in Ficciones demonstrate the gargantuan powers of imagination, intelligence, and style of one of the greatest writers of this or any other century.

Borges sends us on a journey into a compelling, bizarre, and profoundly resonant realm; we enter the fearful sphere of Pascal’s abyss, the surreal and literal labyrinth of books, and the iconography of eternal return. More playful and approachable than the fictions themselves are Borges’s Prologues, brief elucidations that offer the uninitiated a passageway into the whirlwind of Borges’s genius and mirror the precision and potency of his intellect and inventiveness, his piercing irony, his skepticism, and his obsession with fantasy. To enter the worlds in Ficciones is to enter the mind of Jorge Luis Borges, wherein lies Heaven, Hell, and everything in between.

“These brief Ficciones have to be read one at a time, and slowly; then they throb with uncanny and haunting power.” —The Atlantic Monthly The seventeen pieces in Ficciones demonstrate the gargantuan powers of imagination, intelligence, and style of one of the greatest writers of this or any other...

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18 reviews

Dan Hinge

December 30, 2021

A disappointing translation of one of the world's best writers. The translator inserts phrases that do not appear in the original, and writes English that is ungrammatical in places. Look for translations by Norman Thomas Di Giovanni instead - some are available free online. Di Giovanni worked with Borges on the English translations, and it really shows.

John Wasylak

May 30, 2016

absolutely undefinable . its right next to the overman by sinclair on my favorites list. (and the rest of anything borges) unfortunately for me someone stole my copy of this exact book but i think i have a compilation (luckily) that has it in it's entirety

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Gonzalo Carlo Cárdenas Magno

August 24, 2018

The way he describes Tlon is amazing. Borges could have been a mathematician, if he hadn't chosen to be a writter.

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About the author

JORGE LUIS BORGES was born into an intellectual family in Buenos Aires, in 1899. During his youth, the family lived in several countries including Spain and Switzerland. Because of his British ancestry, Borges learned English before Spanish, yet also acquired French and German at a young age. After World War I, Borges returned to Buenos Aires where he began his literary career, publishing in periodicals such as the prestigious Martin Fierro and Sur. In 1923, Borges published his first collection of poetry, entitled Fervor de Buenos Aires.

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