
Ficciones
“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 . . . . Absolutely and most vividly original.”—Saturday Review The seventeen pieces in Ficciones demonstrate the gargantuan powers of imagination, intelligence, and style of one of the greatest writers of this or any other century. Borges sends us on a journey into a compelling, bizarre, and profoundly resonant realm; we enter the fearful sphere of Pascal’s abyss, the surreal and literal labyrinth of books, and the iconography of eternal return. More playful and approachable than the fictions themselves are Borges’s Prologues, brief elucidations that offer the uninitiated a passageway into the whirlwind of Borges’s genius and mirror the precision and potency of his intellect and inventiveness, his piercing irony, his skepticism, and his obsession with fantasy. To enter the worlds in Ficciones is to enter the mind of Jorge Luis Borges, wherein lies Heaven, Hell, and everything in between.
Reviews
Frederik De Bosschere@freddy
Sarah Sammis@pussreboots
Cody Degen@codydegen
iamazoo@iamazoo
Laura Mauler@blueskygreenstrees
heleen de boever@hlndb
Gavin@gl
Felipe Saldarriaga @felipesaldata
Ashlyn@demonxore
Fraser Simons@frasersimons
Donald@riversofeurope
Bob Simone@simonerp
Carolina@pandecanela
Melody Izard@mizard
Simon Elliott Stegall@sim_steg
John Balek@cruelspirit
Daryl Houston@dllh
Álvaro Díez@alvarodl
Moa@moaeson
Robert Vetter@vobertretter
Sophie Maude@itsmesophiemaude
baikalsturgeon@baikalsturgeon
Joao Freitas@joaofreitas
Luke Pearce@aldouslanark
Highlights
Iris Adi@irismessage
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