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Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() The first eight-part collection is a dazzling display of meta-fiction, and any reader wondering where writers like Enrique Vila-Matas inherited their style should look no further. For the Argentinian maestro, ten pages is a fairly long tale. Despite this, Fictions is a short work, clocking in at just over 150 pages – mainly because Borges’ creations don’t tend to outstay their welcome. You see, if you’re going to start reading works translated from the Spanish, there’s a name you’ll come across sooner or later – a certain Jorge Luis Borges…įictions (translated – mostly – by Anthony Kerrigan: with some stories translated by Alastair Reid, Anthony Bonner, Helen Temple and Ruthven Todd) brings together two of the writer’s first collections of short stories, The Garden of Forking Paths and Artifices. Today’s post features another stop on my Spanish-language literature self-education journey (courtesy of my wonderful library), and it’s one I’ve been looking forward to for a while. ![]()
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