By common consent, the Argentinian Jorge Luis Borge (1899-1986) is one of the greatest writers to have emerged from Latin America. His finest work is Ficciones (Fictions, 1944), a collection of essay-like short stories, which through numerous translations into other languages assures him of his place in western literature as a whole. This edition of Ficciones by Gordon Brotherston and Peter Hulme offers a comprehensive selection of stories from Borgess best volume. An update of an earlier widely respected edition by the same authors (1976), it has a full introduction, detailed notes, a generous vocabulary, and bibliography, as well as chronological and other tables.
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