Ficciones / by Jorge Luis Borges ; edited and with an introduction by Anthony Kerrigan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986.

Contributor:

Kerrigan, Anthony, editor, translator.

Mark B. Adams Science Fiction Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Evergreen book ; E-368.

An Evergreen book ; E-368

Standardized Title:

Ficciones. English

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Manners and customs--Fiction.

Manners and customs.

Argentina--Social life and customs--Fiction.

Argentina.

Genre:

Fiction.

Science fiction.

Short stories.

Penn Provenance:

Adams, Mark B. (donor) (Adams Collection copy)

Physical Description:

174 pages ; 21 cm.

Edition:

First Evergreen edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Grove Press, 1963.

Summary:

The seventeen pieces in Ficciones demonstrate the gargantuan powers of imagination, intelligence, and style of one of the greatest writers of this or any other century. Borges sends us on a journey into a compelling, bizarre, and profoundly resonant realm; we enter the fearful sphere of Pascal's abyss, the surreal and literal labyrinth of books, and the iconography of eternal return. More playful and approachable than the fictions themselves are Borges's Prologues, brief elucidations that offer the uninitiated a passageway into the whirlwind of Borges's genius and mirror the precision and potency of his intellect and inventiveness, his piercing irony, his skepticism, and his obsession with fantasy. To enter the worlds in Ficciones is to enter the mind of Jorge Luis Borges, wherein lies Heaven, Hell, and everything in between.

Contents:

Garden of forking paths

Prologue: Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius

Approach to Al-Mu'tasim

Pierre Menard, author of Don Quixote

Circular ruins

Babylon lottery

Examination of the work of Herbert Quain

Library of Babel

Garden of forking paths

Artifices: Prologue: Funes, the memorious

Form of the sword

Theme of the traitor and hero

Death and the compass

Secret miracle

Three versions of Judas

End

Sect of the Phoenix

South.

Notes:

"Translated from the Spanish, ©1956 by Emecé Editores, S.A., Buenos Aires"--Title page verso.

Local Notes:

Adams Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Dr. Mark B. Adams.

Adams Collection copy is the eleventh printing, undated.

ISBN:

0394172442

9780394172446

OCLC:

12127323

Publisher Number:

E-368M Evergreen books