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Ficciones
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JORGE LUIS BORGES
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mark monday
Borges looked inside the swirling mind of man and made a maze of it. A glorious maze! The maze that is Ficciones is a maze built of mazes, one opening unto another, circling around and looping back, an infinity of mazes, small as the smallest of small minds, large as the universe can be imagined. Its architecture is delicate and refined; the wry wit of its creator is apparent in every twist and turn. Borges' maze gently mocks yet empathizes with the self-important, the self-absorbed, and the sel ...more
PGR Nair
Feb 08, 2015 rated it it was amazing
( Note: This is an article I wrote in 2009 to mark the 110th birth Anniversary of Borges. Therefore, some of the stories I cite here may not belong to this collection. I thought to post it here as this book is the most cited. If you plan to buy a book of Borges, buy this one or Labyrinth and other stories as both contain the same set of stories and translators. His best translators are Norman Thomas di Giovanni and Anthony Kerrigan . Stay away from the translator Andrew Hurley)

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Cecily
Read as part of the Collected Fictions, reviewed here, with links to detailed reviews:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

All my Borges reviews are on this shelf:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...


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Arun Divakar
Mar 23, 2012 rated it it was amazing
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The twilight was deepening as I walked the gravelly path to the building that stood at the end of it. It wasn't very well lit on the outside was the first impression I had on seeing the building. There was nobody to ask any further questions to and all I could do was to walk straight in. Closing the door, I turned around and gazed open mouthed at the row upon row of books stacked in that most magical of places : a library ! I moved through the aisles, picking up one book and replacing it as some ...more
Antonio Gallo
May 13, 2025 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
T. S. Eliot ebbe a dire che "human kind cannot bear too much reality". Gli uomini, è vero, hanno bisogno di andare oltre la realtà. Ecco perchè scrivono e leggono racconti e romanzi. Hanno bisogno di "fiction", come dicono gli inglesi: la finzione. Dal latino "fingere", creare, qualunque cosa inventata, una persona, una condizione, un fatto, un evento, un luogo. Un termine che oggi nel mondo contemporaneo tocca tutti i mezzi della comunicazione, dai libri ai giornali, dal cinema alla TV, dal tea ...more
Nate D
Aug 26, 2010 rated it it was amazing
See the Collected Fictions.
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