Jorge Luis Borges
Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges KBE (/ˈbɔːrhɛs/; Spanish: [ˈxorxe ˈlwis ˈborxes] 24 August 1899 - 14 June 1986), was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish language literature. His work embraces the "character of unreality in all literature". His best-known books, Ficciones (Fictions) and El Aleph (The Aleph), published in the 1940s, are compilations of short stories interconnected by common themes, including dreams, labyrinths, libraries, mirrors, fictional writers, philosophy, and religion. Literary critics have described Borges as Latin America's monumental writer.
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Books Jorge Luis Borges has authored
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Collected Fictions
by Jorge Luis Borges • September 1, 1999 • Literature & Fiction
From Jorge Luis Borges’s 1935 debut with The Universal History of Iniquity, through his immensely influential collections Ficci...
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Ficciones
by Jorge Luis Borges • February 1, 1994 • Literature & Fiction
The seventeen pieces in Ficciones demonstrate the gargantuan powers of imagination, intelligence, and style of one of the great...
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Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius
by Jorge Luis Borges • October 15, 1982 • Literature & Fiction
`Here is a handsome edition of one of Borges' ficciones, in a translation first published in Labyrinths in 1962. It's an import...
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