by Jorge Luis Borges · DEBOLSILLO · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788499089508
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«Ficciones» is the book of fantastic and detective short stories by Jorge Luis Borges, published by Debolsillo in paperback (224 pages, in Spanish).
The volume includes detective, fantastic and imaginary stories: an investigation in «La muerte y la brújula», a society governed by chance in «La lotería en Babilonia» and an invented world in «Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius». The labyrinth, the library and imaginary books structure the whole.
This edition belongs to the Contemporánea collection and its cover includes the mention of the Cervantes Prize received by Jorge Luis Borges.
Recommended for readers of classic short stories and fantastic literature, and as a gateway to the work of Jorge Luis Borges.
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.
