Ficciones

One of the first collections of Jorge Luis Borges` stories to be translated into English (along with LABYRINTHES), FICCIONES was for many readers their introduction to the delightfully erudite tales, fables, and parables of the great Argentinean writer--literature`s great puzzle-box artist. Among the 17 stories are the postmodern classics `The Garden of Forking Paths` in which an Asian spy (working for the Germans) discovers a novel that includes every possible variation of the future; `The Tower of Babel, ` which imagines a library world with an infinite number of random books that--though they must contain all the truths, lives, and futures ever imagined--are mostly total gibberish; and `Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius` in which the narrator, Borges himself, unearths a vast intellectual conspiracy to create an encyclopedia of a fictional world, a world that begins to alter the nature of the real world. This slim collection remains one of the greatest works of one of literature`s most brilliant minds. Its philosophical gambits, its astonishing inventions, and its devilish conundrums are worthy of endless revisitations. Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights reserved.