Playfully experimenting with ostensibly sub-literary genres, Borges took the detective story and turned it into metaphysics he took fantasy writing and made it, with its questioning and reinventing of everyday reality, central to the craft of fiction he took the literary essay and put it to use reviewing wholly imaginary books. An edition of Collected Fictions (1998) Collected fictions Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition by Jorge Luis Borges 4. Now, for the first time in English, all of Borges' dazzling fictions are collected in a single volume-from his 1935 debut with The Universal History of Iniquity through his immensely influential collections Ficciones and The Aleph, the enigmatic prose poems of The Maker, up to his final work in the 1980s, Shakespeare's Memory.įor some fifty years, in intriguing and ingenious fictions that re-imagined the very form of the short story, Borges returned again and again to his celebrated themes: dreams, duels, labyrinths, mirrors, infinite libraries, the manipulations of chance, gauchos, knife fighters, tigers, and the elusive nature of identity itself. Now for the first time in English, all of Borges dazzling fictions are gathered into a single volume, brilliantly translated by Andrew Hurley.

Jorge Luis Borges has been called the greatest Spanish-language writer of our century. Inside, a date and initials are written in ink on the front end page. 4.5 6 Ratings 9.99 9.99 Publisher Description. Jorge Luis Borges Collected Fictions Translated by Andrew Hurley is a 565=page softcover published in 1998 by Penguin Books.

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