Ficciones - Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics

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Ficciones

Ficciones - Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics

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Published: 20 May, 1993
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FICTIONS is perhaps the single most mysterious and extraordinary collection of short stories written this century. Influenced by writers as disparate as Lewis Carroll, Stevenson and Cervantes, Borges is nethertheless a complete original who can turn dry logical puzzles in to enchanting fables. The Pieces in this volume represent his most accomplished work.
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Type Book
ISBN13 9781857151664
ISBN10 1857151666
Number Of Pages 200
Item Weight 320 g
Product Dimensions 131 x 210 x 17 mm
Publisher / Reseller Everyman
Format hardback
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Jorge Luis Borges’ mysterious stories broke new ground and transformed literature forever. Everyone should read him, writes. -- Jane Ciabattari

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Author's Bio

Jorge Luis Borges was born in Buenos Aires in 1899 and was educated in Europe. One of the most widely acclaimed writers of our time, he published many collections of poems, essays and short stories before his death in Geneva in 1986. He was director of the Argentine National Library from 1955 until 1973. Mario Vargas Llosa, in a tribute to Borges, has written: 'His is a world of clear, pure, and at the same time unusual ideas expressed in words of great directness and restraint. [He] was a superb storyteller. One reads most of Borges' tales with the hypnotic interest usually reserved for reading detective fiction...'

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