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Ficciones
Sign in to save'''''''' (in English: "Fictions") is a collection of short stories by Argentine writer and poet Jorge Luis Borges, originally written and published in Spanish between 1941 and 1956. Thirteen stories from Ficciones were first published by New Directions in the English-language anthology Labyrinths'' (1962). In the same year, Grove Press published the entirety of the book in English, using the same title as in the original language. "The Approach to Al-Mu'tasim" originally appeared published in A History of Eternity ('') (1936). Ficciones'' became Borges's most famous book and made him known wor
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- Author
- Jorge Luis Borges
- First published
- 1945
- Editions
- 78
- Subjects
- Anachronisms, speculative fiction, subjective idealism, duodecimals, aneurysms, adjectives, hermeticism, philanthropy
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Key facts
- Book.name
- Ficciones
- Book.title_orig
- Ficciones
- Book.translator
- various
- Book.image
- image:Ficciones.jpg
- Book.caption
- First edition
- Book.author
- Jorge Luis Borges
- Book.country
- Argentina
- Book.language
- Spanish
- Book.publisher
- Editorial Sur (1944)Emecé (1956)
- Book.pub_date
- 1941–2, 1944, 1956
- Book.english_pub_date
- 1962 by Grove Press
- Book.media_type
- Book.pages
- 203pp (1944)197pp (1956)
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Encyclopedic overview
9 sectionsContents
- Background
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- Contents
- Style
- Themes
- Reception
- References
- External links
'''''''' (in English: "Fictions") is a collection of short stories by Argentine writer and poet Jorge Luis Borges, originally written and published in Spanish between 1941 and 1956. Thirteen stories from Ficciones were first published by New Directions in the English-language anthology Labyrinths'' (1962). In the same year, Grove Press published the entirety of the book in English, using the same title as in the original language. "The Approach to Al-Mu'tasim" originally appeared published in A History of Eternity ('') (1936). Ficciones'' became Borges's most famous book and made him known worldwide.
The book is dedicated to writer Esther Zemborain de Torres Duggan, a friend and collaborator of Borges's.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ficciones” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.