Fictions

Jorge Luis Borge’s Fictions introduced an entirely new voice into world literature. It is here we find the astonishing accounts of Funes, the man who can forget nothing; the French poet who recreated Don Quixote word for word; the fatal lottery in Babylon; the mysterious planet of Tlön; and the library containing every possible book in the whole universe. Here too are the philosophical detective stories and the haunting tales of Irish revolutionaries, gaucho knife fights and dreams within dreams which proved so influential (and yet impossible to imitate). This collection was eventually to bring Borges international fame; over fifty years later, it remains endlessly intriguing.

This edition is the collection originally published in Spanish as Ficciones (1944).

Ficciones is in fact a compilation of two collections: El Jardín de senderos qui se bifurcan (“The Garden of Forking Paths”), first published in 1941, and Artificios (“Artifices”), unpublished in book form prior to 1944.