Ficciones
Fictions
latin america
philosophical fiction
Ficciones is a collection of short stories by Argentine writer and poet Jorge Luis Borges, originally written and published in Spanish between 1941 and 1956. Thirteen stories from Ficciones were first published by New Directions in the English-language anthology Labyrinths (1962). In the same year, Grove Press published the entirety of the book in English using the same title as in the original language. "The Approach to Al-Mu'tasim" originally appeared published in A History of Eternity (1936). Ficciones became Borges's most famous book and made him known worldwide.â Wikipedia
Published in two parts, this 1944 collection contains the following short stories:
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El jardĂn de senderos que se bifurcan [The Garden of Forking Paths]
⢠Pierre Menard, autor del Quijote [Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote]
⢠La biblioteca de Babel [The Library of Babel]
⢠TlÜn, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius
⢠Las ruinas circulares [The Circular Ruins]
⢠La loterĂa en Babilonia [The Lottery of Babylon]
⢠El acercamiento a AlmotĂĄsim [The Approach to AlâMuâtasim]
⢠Examen de la obra de Herbert Quain [An Examination of the Work of Herbert Quain]
⢠El jardĂn de senderos que se bifurcan [The Garden of Forking Paths]
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Artificios [Artefices]
⢠Funes el memorioso [Funes the Memorious]
⢠La forma de la espada [The Form of the Sword]
⢠Tema del traidor y del hÊroe [Theme of the Traitor and the Hero]
⢠La muerte y la brújula [Death and the Compass]
⢠El milagro secreto [The Secret Miracle]
⢠Tres versiones de Judas [Three Versions of Judas]
⢠El Fin [The End]*
⢠La secta del FÊnix [The Sect of the Phoenix]*
⢠El Sur [The South]*
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**Added in the 1953 edition
