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Jorge Luis Borges

Andrew Hurley

Collected Fictions Paperback – Deckle Edge, September 1, 1999

by Jorge Luis Borges (Author), Andrew Hurley (Translator)

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For the first time in English, all the fiction by the writer who has been called “the greatest Spanish-language writer of our century” collected in a single volume

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From Jorge Luis Borges’s 1935 debut with The Universal History of Iniquity, through his immensely influential collections Ficciones and The Aleph, these enigmatic, elaborate, imaginative inventions display his talent for turning fiction on its head by playing with form and genre and toying with language. Together these incomparable works comprise the perfect one-volume compendium for all those who have long loved Borges, and a superb introduction to the master's work for those who have yet to discover this singular genius.

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565 pages
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September 1, 1999
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12 and up
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18 years and up
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8.37 x 5.78 x 1.5 inches
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0140286802
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“A marvelous new collection of stories by one of the most remarkable writers of our century.” —The New York Times

“The major work of probably the most influential Latin American writer of the century.” —The Washington Post Book World

“An unparalleled treasury of marvels . . . Along with a tiny cohort of peers, and seers (Kafka and Joyce come to mind), Borges is more than a stunning storyteller and a brilliant stylist; he’s a mirror who reflects the spirit of his time.” —Chicago Tribune

“An event worth of celebration . . . Hurley deserves our enthusiastic praise for this monumental piece of work.” —San Francisco Chronicle

“Borges is the most important Spanish-language writer since Cervantes. . . . To have denied him the Nobel Prize is as bad as the case of Joyce, Proust, and Kafka.” —Mario Vargas Llosa

“When I read a good book, I sometimes like to think I might be capable of writing something similar, but never, in my wildest dreams, could I write anything that approaches the level of cleverness and intellect and madness of Borges. I don’t think anyone could.” —Daniel Radcliffe

About the Author

Jorge Luis Borges was born in Buenos Aires in 1989 and was educated in Europe. One of the most widely acclaimed writers of our time, he published many collections of poems, essays, and short stories before his death in Geneva in June 1986. In 1961 Borges shared the International Publisher’s prize with Samuel Beckett. The Ingram Merrill Foundation granted him its Annual Literary Award in 1966 for his “outstanding contribution to literature.” In 1971 Columbia University awarded him the first of many degrees of Doctor of Letters, honoris causa (eventually the list included both Oxford and Cambridge), that he was to receive from the English-speaking world. In 1971 he also received the fifth biennial Jerusalem Prize and in 1973 was given one of Mexico’s most prestigious cultural awards, the Alfonso Reyes Prize. In 1980 he shared with Gerardo Diego the Cervantes Prize, the Spanish world’s highest literary accolade. Borges was Director of the Argentine National Library from 1955 until 1973.

Andrew Hurley (editor/translator) is a translator of numerous works of literature, criticism, history, and memoir. He is professor emeritus at the University of Puerto Rico.

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Contents

A UNIVERSAL HISTORY OF INIQUITY (1935)

Preface to the First Edition
Preface to the 1954 Edition

The Cruel Redeemer Lazarus Morell
The Improbable Impostor Tom Castro
The Widow Ching—Pirate
Monk Eastman, Purveyor of Iniquities
The Disinterested Killer Bill Harrigan
The Uncivil Teacher of Court Etiquette Kôtsuké no Suké
Hakim, the Masked Dyer of Merv
Man on Pink Corner
Et cetera

Index of Sources

FICTIONS (1944)

THE GARDEN OF FORKING PATHS (1941)

Foreword

Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius
The Approach to Al-Mu’tasim
Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote
The Circular Ruins
The Lottery in Babylon
A Survey of the Works of Herbert Quain
The Library of Babel
The Garden of Forking Paths

ARTIFICES (1944)

Foreword

Funes, His Memory
The Shape of the Sword
The Theme of the Traitor and the Hero Death and the Compass
The Secret Miracle
Three Versions of Judas
The End
The Cult of the Phoenix
The South

THE ALEPH (1949)

The Immortal
The Dead Man
The Theologians
Story of the Warrior and the Captive Maiden
A Biography of Tadeo Isidoro Cruz (1829–1874)
Emma Zunz
The House of Asterion
The Other Death
Deutsches Requiem
Averroës’ Search
The Zahir
The Writing of the God
Ibn-Hakam al-Bokhari, Murdered in His Labyrinth
The Two Kings and the Two Labyrinths
The Wait
The Man on the Threshold
The Aleph

Afterword

THE MAKER (1960)

Foreword: For Leopoldo Lugones

The Maker
Dreamtigers
A Dialog About a Dialog
Toenails
Covered Mirrors
Argumentum Ornithologicum
The Captive
The Mountebank
Delia Elena San Marco
A Dialog Between Dead Men
The Plot
A Problem
The Yellow Rose
The Witness
Martin Fierro
Mutations
Parable of Cervantes and the Quixote
Paradiso, XXXI, 108
Parable of the Palace
Everything and Nothing
Ragnarök
Inferno, I, 32
Borges and I

MUSEUM

On Exactitude in Science
In Memoriam, J.F.K.

Afterword

IN PRAISE OF DARKNESS (1969)

Foreword

The Ethnographer
Pedro Salvadores
Legend
A Prayer
His End and His Beginning

BRODIE'S REPORT (1970)

Foreword

The Interloper
Unworthy
The Story from Rosendo Juarez
The Encounter
Juan Murafta
The Elderly Lady
The Duel
The Other Duel
Guayaquil
The Gospel According to Mark
Brodie’s Report

THE BOOK OF SAND (1975)

The Other
Ulrikke
The Congress
There Are More Things
The Sect of the Thirty
The Night of the Gifts
The Mirror and the Mask
“Undr”
A Weary Man's Utopia
The Bribe
Avelino Arredondo
The Disk
The Book of Sand

Afterword

SHAKESPEARE’S MEMORY (1983)
August 25, 1983
Blue Tigers
The Rose of Paracelsus
Shakespeare’s Memory

A Note on the Translation
Acknowledgments
Notes to the Fictions

Product details

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Penguin Books (September 1, 1999)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 565 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0140286802
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0140286809
Reading age ‏ : ‎ 18 years and up
Grade level ‏ : ‎ 12 and up
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.34 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.37 x 5.78 x 1.5 inches

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- #6 in Caribbean & Latin American Literature
- #220 in Short Stories Anthologies
- #281 in Classic American Literature

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Do NOT “Avoid the Labyrinth”

Reviewed in the United States on February 12, 2019

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Those words were written on my Amazon Marketplace receipt from Blue Leaf Books by someone with the initials EDG, along with a thank you for ordering the book on March 23, 2017. In fact, I did avoid the labyrinth for almost two years because I knew it would be quite a challenge. I had first “read” Borges’ “Labyrinths” as a 20-year-old. I’m sure I could not have understood any of it at that time. But the years have passed (I won’t say how many) and, fortunately, I decided this was the year that I would make the effort to read Borges’ Collected Fictions, beginning to end, slowly. Near the end of the book, I found myself going back through the pages and finding stories I wanted to read again right away. As one excellent reviewer (Michael Battaglia) wrote, “finishing a book isn't quite the same thing as understanding what you just read,” and this is one book I feel must be read several times. Each time, you will understand more, but you will have the feeling that yet another reading will give you still more understanding. I found it amusing that one of the last stories, “Blue Tigers,” included the following sentence: “I did not sleep the night of Feb. 10.” I was reading this particular story during the afternoon of Feb. 11. Was Borges playing with my mind? I’ve since ordered a copy of Borges’ selected non-fiction and poetry. One must NOT avoid the labyrinth.

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb

How literature and philosophy can be saved by parables

Reviewed in the United States on September 16, 2015

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This is something very hard to find, almost by definition: a literary writer who thinks in abstract terms (the only other such author I've read is Stanislaw Lem). These are philosophical thought experiments in their purest form, yet somehow magically delivered in a playful literary athmosphere. Borges is a mathematical philosopher, first and last. Ignore the "Latin American" categorization and the nonsense about his background and personal life: one should resist embedding him in a socio-cultural framework; he is as universal as they come. It is good to read a short story once in a while to see how literature and philosophy can be saved by the parable.

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Luis Espinal

The beauty of an old book

Reviewed in the United States on January 3, 2020

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Apart from the beautiful writing, this second hand book as an “old” quality to it. I am glad I bought it from the seller.

Books are like wine. When well preserved, they get better with age.

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Jonathan

The Argentinian Gentleman of science fiction.

Reviewed in the United States on February 24, 2021

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What a treat. Even translated to English, the adroit, mesmerizing, inventive hand of Jorge Luis Borges shows through. His work persuades me that he may have prefaced the Magic Realism movement. A fine collection.

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Leo Reyes

Never tire of reading Borges

Reviewed in the United States on July 5, 2021

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This book replaces me having to go to the library when I feel the need to read Borges. I've read multiple stories of his multiple times. I lent a co-worker his Labyrinths & am not worried if she keeps it. I've another Borges book to hold onto.

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Gun Moll

Get Ready for a Trip Into Wonder

Reviewed in the United States on February 27, 2020

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Physically, this is a beautiful book. Its storytelling is a miracle of fascination. Jorge Luis Borges never fails to quietly blow your mind.

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An excellent first-ever compedium of all of Borges' work.

Reviewed in the United States on September 25, 1998

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I discovered Jorge Luis Borges, not through some literature class, or from other post-modern writers. Instead I discovered his work through science fiction.
His weird worlds often have, inadvertently, a science fiction flavor, and it is several of his stories that have appeared in science fiction story anthologies that I first learned about this most unusual writer. I was disappointed to see just how scattershot his work was, however, until the publication of this latest and complete translation. They are all here--the stories that introduced me to his work..."The Library of Babel" "Tlon, Uqbar, Orbius Teritus" and others. And many stories I had never heard of...or ever seen more than a mention of. It's a hefty volume, but if you like writers like Umberto Eco, or simply want doses of something other than our mundane banal reality, Borges' work, sadly and idiotically ignored for a Nobel prize, is worth a try. And this volume, the complete and definitive collection of his stories, is the one and only book you need purchase.

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Rainbow

It's absolutely fantastic; I bought this for a class

Reviewed in the United States on December 21, 2016

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An anthology of Borges short stories. It's absolutely fantastic; I bought this for a class, and though the class is over I am keeping this book.

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Bob Simmons

An incredibly interesting read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 12, 2017

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Personally, I loved this book. The product itself was of high quality, it arrived exactly as expected and on time.
The stories in the book though, that's something else entirely. They are rich, and far more detailed than you could imagine for how short they are. The present amazing and thought provoking ideas wrapped up in a few pages. My personal favourite, 'The Garden Of Forking Paths', in incredible. It fills out the story perfectly initially, and you won't quite understand it (Or I didn't anyway) until the very last paragraph. There were other greats in there too, such as 'The Library Of Babel' and 'The Circular Ruins', but I have yet to read one that wasn't simply mindblowing.

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China

Synopsis is wrong...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 16, 2020

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I was looking forward to reading The Aleph which was described in the synopsis. Alas, I have been disappointed by the inaccurate description.

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Mike N

If you only ever read the collected works of one author, make it this one!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 22, 2012

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Borges' collected fictions contains, not to put too fine a point on it, some of the most wonderful, magical stories ever written. The labyrinthine workings of his mind are reflected in his stories - quite literally in some places - and you will almost certainly want to visit Tlön, or his library - where you may get to read the infinite Book of Sand - the book of all books - or perhaps Herbet Quains trifurcating "April March".

These stories have been the inspiration for so many authors over the years (and arguably for hypertext novels and "choose your own adventure" type books). Everybody should read them!

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Hylas Maliki

Intoxicating

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 26, 2020

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Whereas most writers regurgitate the same subjects of love or family, Borges finds his inspiration from philosophical concepts, and dazzles you with the stories he creates out of them.

Mr. Anthony J. Hume

borges - wonderful

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 21, 2021

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fast service of a great book - love this