The More Than Words double bottom line: Every purchase provides hands on job training opportunities, and all revenue supports our nonprofit to empower youth to take charge of their lives. To enter the worlds in Ficciones is to enter the mind of Jorge Luis Borges, wherein lies Heaven, Hell, and everything in between. I recommend the stories 'The Immortal' and 'The Zahir', two of my favourites. At my school they made us read him and these were the stories we read. More playful and approachable than the fictions themselves are Borges's Prologues, brief elucidations that offer the uninitiated a passageway into the whirlwind of Borges's genius and mirror the precision and potency of his intellect and inventiveness, his piercing irony, his skepticism, and his obsession with fantasy. The Aleph is a great way to start with Borges. Jorge Luis Borges was one of those very rare creators who changed the face of an art formin his case, the short story. A translation of the expanded 1956 edition of FICCIONES, Borgess most famous. Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges: 9780679422990 : Books Jorge Luis Borges was one of those very rare creators who changed the face of an art formin his case, the short story. Borges sends us on a journey into a compelling, bizarre, and profoundly resonant realm we enter the fearful sphere of Pascal's abyss, the surreal and literal labyrinth of books, and the iconography of eternal return. First edition in English, paperback issue. The seventeen pieces in Ficciones demonstrate the gargantuan powers of imagination, intelligence, and style of one of the greatest writers of this or any other century.
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