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Ficciones

by Jorge Luis Borges · 1944

Classics · ranked #79 in category

Seventeen short stories — many barely five pages — that invented a new form: the intellectual labyrinth. Borges's stories are about libraries that contain every possible book, lotteries that determine all of reality, detectives investigating their own murders, and critics reviewing imaginary masterpieces. Every story is a philosophical puzzle with narrative clothes.

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The verdict

Category
Classics
First published
1944 · 1940s
Author
Jorge Luis Borges
Standing
Essential Read

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