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<p><b>The complete fiction of Jorge Luis Borges, whom Nobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa calls “the most important Spanish-language writer since Cervantes”</b></p> <p><b>A <i>New York Times</i> Notable Book</b></p> <p><b>The International Bestseller</b></p> <p>For the first time in English, all of the best Latin American writer Jorge Luis Borges’s dazzling fictions are collected in a single volume in brilliant new translations by Andrew Hurley. From his 1935 debut with <i>The Universal History of Iniquity</i> through his immensely influential collections <i>Ficciones</i> and <i>The Aleph,</i> the enigmatic prose poems of <i>The Maker,</i> up to his final work in the 1980s, <i>Shakespeare’s Memory</i>, these enigmatic, elaborate, imaginative inventions display Borges’s talent for turning fiction on its head by playing with form and genre and toying with language.</p> <p>For some fifty years, in intriguing and ingenious fictions that reimagined the very form of the short story, Borges returned again and again to his celebrated themes: dreams, duels, labyrinths, mirrors, infinite libraries, the manipulations of chance, gauchos, knife fighters, tigers, and the elusive nature of iden
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- Author
- Jorge Luis Borges; Andrew Hurley
- Publisher
- Penguin (UK)
- Published
- 1999
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780670849703
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Romance, Short Stories
- Rating
- 4.58 / 5 (16,679 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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