by Jorge Luis Borges · Alianza · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420633121
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«Ficciones» is Jorge Luis Borges's collection of fantastic short stories, published by Alianza Editorial in 1997 in paperback (218 pages, in Spanish).
The volume brings together two books dated 1941 and 1944: «El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan» and «Artificios». Notable stories include «Pierre Menard, autor del Quijote», «La Biblioteca de Babel», «La muerte y la brújula», «Funes el memorioso» and «El Sur». The work combines the fantastic with erudition and philosophical play, addressing themes such as infinity, labyrinths, memory and the nature of fiction.
The book belongs to the Biblioteca Borges collection from Alianza Editorial.
Recommended for readers interested in twentieth-century short fiction and in one of the essential titles of fantastic literature in Spanish.
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.
