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Fictions

By Jorge Luis Borges
Series: Penguin Modern Classics
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Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges is a collection of intricate and thought-provoking short stories that blur the lines between reality and imagination. Through themes of infinite labyrinths, mythical creatures, and enigmatic books, Borges crafts narratives that challenge readers' perceptions and offer deep philosophical musings. Each story invites you into a richly imagined world, full of paradoxes and intellectual puzzles.
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Offers accounts of 'Funes the Memorious', the man who can forget nothing; 'Pierre Menard, Author of the "Quixote"', who recreates Miguel de Cervantes' epic word-for-word; a society run on the basis of an all-encompassing game of chance in 'The Lottery in Babylon'.

The most popular anthology of Jorge Luis Borges's short stories, Fictions is a wildly original and influential collection of fantastic tales, translated from the Spanish with an afterword by Andrew Hurley in Penguin Modern Classics.

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The most popular anthology of Jorge Luis Borges's short stories, Fictions is a wildly original and influential collection of fantastic tales, translated from the Spanish with an afterword by Andrew Hurley in Penguin Modern Classics.

Nobody before Borges had ever attempted this strange and wonderful mixture of arcana, popular literature, national myth, the nature of time and classical themes. Now we can see it in all its intense and disturbing brilliance, certain that we will never see anything like it again - Justin Cartwright, Independent on Sunday

Series: Penguin Modern Classics

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780141183848

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 07 September 2000

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Penguin Classics

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 11.0mm

Width: 128.0mm

Height: 197.0mm

Weight: 149g

Pages: 192

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Fiction General Fiction Jorge Luis Borges Literary Fiction Penguin Books Penguin Classics Series: Penguin Modern Classics

About the Author

Borges was born in Buenos Aires in 1899. A poet, critic and short story writer, he received numerous awards for his work including the 1961 International Publisher's Prize (shared with Samuel Beckett). He died in 1986. He has a reasonable claim, with Kafka and Joyce, to be the most influential writer of the 20th Century. Andrew Hurley is Professor of English at the University of Puerto Rico in San Juan. He has translated works by Borges, Padilla and Arenas.

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