by Jorge Luis Borges · Folio · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782070389049
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«Ficciones» is Jorge Luis Borges's collection of short stories, published by Folio in paperback (384 pages, in Spanish and French).
The stories in «Ficciones» combine metaphysics, erudition and the detective genre: infinite libraries, labyrinths, mirrors, parallel universes, imaginary worlds and time as illusion. Among them are «La biblioteca de Babel», «Pierre Menard, autor del Quijote», «La lotería de Babilonia» and «El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan».
The work was originally published in 1944; this volume belongs to the Folio Bilingue collection.
For students of Spanish or French and for readers interested in comparing Borges's original with its translation.
Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator regarded as a key figure in Spanish-language and international literature. His best-known works, Ficciones (transl. Fictions) and El Aleph, published in the 1940s, are collections of short stories exploring motifs such as dreams, labyrinths, chance, infinity, archives, mirrors, fictional writers, and mythology. Borges's works have contributed to philosophical literature and the fantasy genre, and have had a major influence on the magical realist movement in 20th century Latin American literature.
