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Collected Fictions
Collected Fictions | Jorge Luis Borges, Andrew Hurley
The complete fiction of Jorge Luis Borges, whom Nobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa calls the most important Spanish-language writer since CervantesA New York Times Notable BookThe International BestsellerFor the first time in English, all of the best Latin American writer Jorge Luis Borges's dazzling fictions are collected in a single volume in brilliant new translations by Andrew Hurley. 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, these enigmatic, elaborate, imaginative inventions display Borges's talent for turning fiction on its head by playing with form and genre and toying with language.For some fifty years, in intriguing and ingenious fictions that reimagined 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. Playfully experimenting with ostensibly subliterary 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.Commemorating the 100th anniversary of his birth, this edition at last brings together all of Borges's magical short stories. Collected Fictions is the definitive one-volume compendium for all those who have long loved Borges, and a superb introduction to the Argentine master's work for those who have yet to discover him.
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Micks
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My most indulgent book spree. It‘s not overspending if it‘s on books right ?

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I have the best family 😁! I left half my Christmas presents at my parents‘ 🙄🙈🤦🏼‍♂️. They sent my books as media mail, and they‘ve arrived at last ☺️👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 🕺! They chose well!!! Have you read any of these?!

StaceyKondla You can‘t go wrong with a Bradbury anthology, and I have the Marlon James on my stack to be read. Enjoy! 😊📚 5y
TheSpineView Bradbury which I loved. Looks like a great bunch you have there! 5y
TracyReadsBooks I really enjoyed Black Leopard Red Wolf but I think it‘s very much a love it or hate it book. The writing is fantastic and I definitely think it‘s worth a read. 5y
Branwen I love love LOVE that Bradbury anthology! 😍 Enjoy! I hope you love it too! 5y
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Natasha.C.Barnes
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#feistyfeb Day 9: #deckleedge! I've only got two with me right now, but boy are they good ones! I was so sad when I finally finished all of the Borges... Luckily Italo Calvino is so similar!

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"This much is know: For every rational line or forthright statement there are leagues of senseless cacophony, verbal nonsense, and incoherency." - The Library of Babel

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Yossarian
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My all time favorite collection. Short stories. Some set in South America. Some just set in Borges mind, which is housed in his brain, which was often in Argentina, which is in South America. #booktober #southamerica

Curley_Bender Borges is something special. 8y
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"Oh time thy pyramids"

Happily, my favorite surrealist South American author is also a decent #scaretober read. If this compilation of most of his works is daunting, my favorite book-within is "The Garden of Forking Paths," which contains his semi-famous vision of the universe as a library. #booktober @RealLifeReading

(for further fun, check out: http://en.illogicopedia.org/wiki/The_Library_of_Babel)

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June 14, 1986 Jorge Luis Borges died. The Aleph is still one of my favorite stories, although Mickey The Wonder Dog prefers The Library of Babel. (Mickey also wanted everyone to know he only posed for this picture because I promised him a belly rub. He drives a hard bargain ...)

Shortstack 😍😍😍 puppy love!!! 8y
CherylDeFranceschi ❤️ It astonishes me always that our beloved animals are so opinionated about media! My Lily is the same. 8y
TheWellReadOwl @Shortstack @CherylDeFranceschi He is a cutie. ❤️ And a very discerning reader ha ha 8y
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BookishFeminist That puppy 🐶💕 8y
WordWaller Awww 😍 My cats are very opinionated on how much attention books should get as well. 8y
LeahBergen His expression!!! ❤️ 8y
Kathrin Awwwwww... puppy puppy puppy! 🐶🐕🐈🐾 8y
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Happy National Library Week!

heikemarie Top three favorite authors! As a Spanish and ELA teacher, this quote was on my business cards for a while. :) 9y
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