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FICTIONS - JORGE LUIS BORGES KARTONIERT (TB)

The most popular anthology of Jorge Luis Borges's short stories  Fictions is a wildly original
and influential collection of fantastic tales  translated from the Spanish with an afterword by
Andrew Hurley in Penguin Modern Classics.Jorge Luis Borges's Fictions introduced an entirely
new voice into world literature. It is here that we find the astonishing accounts of 'Funes the
Memorious'  the man who can forget nothing  'Pierre Menard  Author of the Quixote'  who
recreates Miguel de Cervantes's epic word-for-word  a society run on the basis of an
all-encompassing game of chance in 'The Lottery in Babylon'  the mysterious world of 'Tlön 
Uqbar  Orbis Tertius' which seems to be supplanting our own   and the 'Library of Babel'  which
contains every possible book in the whole universe. Here too are the philosophical detective
stories and the haunting tales of Irish revolutionaries  gaucho knife fights and dreams within
dreams which proved so influential (and yet impossible to imitate). This collection was
eventually to bring Borges international fame  over fifty years later  it remains endlessly
intriguing.Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) was born in Buenos Aires  Argentina. A poet  critic
and short story writer  he received numerous awards for his work including the 1961
International Publisher's Prize (shared with Samuel Beckett). He has a reasonable claim  along
with Kafka and Joyce  to be one of the most influential writers of the 20th century.If you
enjoyed Fictions  you might like Italo Calvino's The Complete Cosmicomics  also available in
Penguin Modern Classics.'Hurley's efforts at retranslating Borges are not anything but heroic.
His visions are clear  elegant  crystalline'Ilan Savans  The Times Literary Supplement'One of
the most memorable artists of our age'Mario Vargas Llosa

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