a central fact of Western culture.' -The Washington Post Book World 'Borges's composed, carefully wrought, gnarled style is at once the means of his art and its object-his way of ordering and giving meaning to the bizarre and terrifying world he creates: it is a brilliant, burnished instrument, and it is quite adequate to the extreme demands his baroque imagination makes of it. The seventeen pieces in Ficciones demonstrate the whirlwind of Borgess genius and mirror the precision and potency of his intellect and inventiveness. Ficciones by Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986, author Contains (expression): Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986. Want to Read saving Want to Read Currently. From his 1935 debut with The Universal History of Iniquity, through his immensely influential collections Ficciones and The Aleph, these enigmatic, elaborate, imaginative inventions display Borges talent for turning fiction on its head by playing with form and genre and toying with language. English Average rating: 4.47 (47,556 ratings) more details. Praise for Ficciones: 'Without Borges the modern Latin American novel simply would not exist.' -Carlos Fuentes 'In resounding the note of the marvelous last struck in English by Wells and Chesterson, in permitting infinity to enter and distort his imagination, has lifted fiction away from the flat earth where most of our novels and short stories still take place.' -John Updike 'These brief Ficciones have to be read one at a time, and slowly then they throb with uncanny and haunting power.' -The Atlantic Monthly 'Borges is the most important Spanish-language writer since Cervantes.' -Mario Vargas Llosa ' engages the heart as well as the intelligence his genius strikes, undismayed as Theseus, through the labyrinths of our life and time to the accomplishment of new, inspiring and stunningly beautiful work.' -John Barth 'One of the finest, subtlest, and least appreciated of comedians. Editions for Ficciones: 0802130305 (Paperback published in 1994), 8806173677.

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