![]() ![]() In 1914, his family moved to Switzerland where he attended school and traveled to Spain. Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo, usually referred to as Jorge Luis Borges (Spanish pronunciation: ), was an Argentine writer and poet born in Buenos Aires. ![]() The Sect of the Phoenix (1952, 2nd edition only) Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote (1939)Īn Examination of the Work of Herbert Quain (1941) The Approach to Al-Mu'tasim (1936, not included in the 1941 edition) To enter the worlds in Ficciones is to enter the mind of Jorge Luis Borges, wherein lies Heaven, Hell, and everything else in between. 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. The seventeen pieces in Ficciones demonstrate 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. ![]()
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