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Ficciones

Jorge Luis Borges,

Anthony Kerrigan (Translator)

Start date: July 1, 2011

Finish date: August 1, 2011

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Sep 14, 2008 lisa_emily rated it it was amazing

Shelves: fictions, 2020-read

Of course, life-altering, one will never wonder about possibilities of the short-story form ever again.

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Mar 31, 2019 Dree rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: in-translation, short-stories, 2019-reads, central-south-america, 1001-read

Somehow I have never read Borges, perhaps because I studied French, Italian, and history in school. And everyone I knew who studied Spanish read him and dreaded it. I actually found this very interesting--but I can only imagine how difficult it would be for a student of Spanish reading the original.

I found these stories to be very interesting. They are also intense and not easy reading. Strange, unpredictable, and uncomfortable. They read more like essays than short stories, but they are very mu ...more

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