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Ficciones

Jorge Luis Borges,

Anthony Kerrigan (Translator)

Start date: September 2, 2015

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Jul 13, 2017 P.E. rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: short-stories, book-about-books, magical-realism, literatura-suramericana

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La edición consta de dos partes, en el original y en francés:

El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan
Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius
Pierre Menard, autor del Quijote
Las ruinas circulares
La lotería en Babilonia
Examen de la obra de Herbert Quain
La biblioteca de Babel
El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan

Artificios
Funes el memorioso
La forma de la espada
Tema del traidor y del héroe
La muerte y la brújula
El milagro secreto
Tres versiones de Judas
El fin
La secta del Fénix
El Sur

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Jun 30, 2019 Klowey rated it it was amazing

Absolutely brilliant. Ficciones is a compilation of the following two short story collections:

The Garden of Forking Paths 1941, *****
Artificios 1944, ****1/2

Along with The Aleph 1949, this is Borges greatest work, in my opinion.

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