Description: Stories deal with an unusual garden, an enormous library, authorship, language, memory, philosophy, and the art of writing.
Review Quotes: "[Borges is] a central fact of Western culture."--WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD"Borges is the most important Spanish-language writer since Cervantes."--Mario Vargas Llosa"Without Borges, the modern Latin American novel simply would not exist."--Carlos Fuentes"[Borges] engages the heart as well as the intelligence."--John Barth"The economy of his prose, the tact of his imagery, the courage of his thought are there to be admired and emulated."--John Updike"These brief Ficciones . . . throb with uncanny and haunting power. A strange and formidable writer, Sr. Borges is also a magisterial stylist."--ATLANTIC MONTHLY"The stories in Ficciones are the very best of Borges . . . They mean more than they seem to mean . . . Borges' fictions are narrative at its purest."--from the Introduction by John Sturrock