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Original Title:	Ficciones
ISBN:	0802130305 (ISBN13: 9780802130303)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Premio Formentor de las Letras for International (1961)

Ficciones Paperback | Pages: 174 pages

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Title	:	Ficciones
Author	:	Jorge Luis Borges
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 174 pages
Published	:	February 1st 1994 by Grove Press (first published 1944)
Categories	:	Fiction. Short Stories. Classics. Magical Realism. Literature. Fantasy

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The seventeen pieces in Ficciones demonstrate 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. 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. To enter the worlds in Ficciones is to enter the mind of Jorge Luis Borges, wherein lies Heaven, Hell, and everything else in between. Part One: The Garden of Forking Paths Prologue Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius (1940) The Approach to Al-Mu'tasim (1936, not included in the 1941 edition) Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote (1939) The Circular Ruins (1940) The Lottery in Babylon (1941) An Examination of the Work of Herbert Quain (1941) The Library of Babel (1941) The Garden of Forking Paths (1941) Part Two: Artifices Prologue Funes the Memorious (1942) The Form of the Sword (1942) Theme of the Traitor and the Hero (1944) Death and the Compass (1942) The Secret Miracle (1943) Three Versions of Judas (1944) The End (1953, 2nd edition only) The Sect of the Phoenix (1952, 2nd edition only) The South (1953, 2nd edition only)

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Metaphor              Infinity         Sophistry             Penumbra          Symbolic               LABYRINTH                 Heresiarch              Prefigured         Philology             Nihilism                                        Maze             AllegoricalThis may not be the prettiest word cloud ever constructed, but I think its a fair representation of the Ficciones experience. Much of the time spent trying to solve the stories puzzles

You who read me, are You sure of understanding my language? Jorge Luis Borges, The Library of Babel Even though I read Borgess Collected Fictions in Spanish, my native tongue, I have to confess I didnt understand half of it. Presumptuous of me to think I would. Famous for being the founder of postmodernist literature and influenced by the work of fantasists such Edgar Allan Poe and Franz Kafka, whom I adore, I was naive enough to assume I would be able to untangle Borgess labyrinthine, almost

'Then I reflected that all the things happen, happen to one, precisely now. Century follows century, and things happen only in the present.'▫"The Garden of Forking Paths", by Jorge Luis Borges, translations from the Spanish by a translation team for the short story collection, FICCIONES, published in 1944.Just finished this spectacular and complicated collection of short stories that span time and dimension, and genre. To state the obvious, Borges was a genius.I see direct links to Borges in the

The author is a master of mixing fantasy and philosophy. He has been credited as a pioneer in magical realism in Latin American literature. In this classic collection, most stories are almost as much essays as they are short stories. Recurring themes are non-existent and ancient books. Time. Geometry. Gnosticism. Mirrors. Encyclopedias. Chess. Labyrinths. Imaginary worlds. Memory and mnemonics. Infinity in books, libraries and labyrinths. All possible outcomes, like infinite universes in which

17 August, 1967: I just finished Ficciones today. I also received it today. That is, today, three weeks ago; I mean, three weeks ago, today. (Three groups of seven, totaling twenty-one; or, in Arabic numerals, 3 x 7 = 21.) I read the book once a day, for each of the days since receiving it. (A total of twenty-one times; 21/1 = 21.) The first week, I read the book in a different mood per day. I started off neutral. The next day, I recalled annoying instances from my past to put myself in an angry

To me Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges is the ultimate anthology of short stories I find in it everything I ever want to find in literature: reality and surreality, realness and surrealness, fables and parables, legends and myths, mysticism and philosophy, history and fantasy and an endless enigma.I owe the discovery of Uqbar to the conjunction of a mirror and an encyclopedia. The mirror troubled the far end of a hallway in a large country house on Calle Gaona, in Ramos Mejia; the encyclopedia is

Every man should be capable of all ideas, and I believe that in the future he will be.Jorge Luis Borges is a monumental inscription in the world of philosophical fiction. His short stories with his labyrinthine themes and language have been explored and analyzed to the point that he has been named one of the pioneers of post-modernist fiction. His fabulistic stories with strange fictional realms and complex social systems and unusual metaphors had a significant influence on the Latin American