by Jorge Luis Borges · Tapa dura · ISBN 9789726116257
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«Ficções» is the collection of short stories by Jorge Luis Borges, published in Portuguese by Abril Controljornal in 2000, in hardback, with 124 pages.
The work brings together short stories and brief pieces in which reality multiplies into invented worlds and language becomes a labyrinth. Borges explores libraries of unwritten books, paradoxes of time, identity and knowledge, blending philosophy, fantasy and erudition in precise, suggestive prose.
The work was originally published in 1944 as «Ficciones»; this Portuguese edition uses the translation by José Colaço Barreiros and belongs to the Biblioteca Visão collection (Colecção Novis).
For readers of short fiction, fantastic literature and philosophical fiction, as well as for those who want to discover a central author of twentieth-century narrative.
Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator regarded as a key figure in Spanish-language and international literature. His best-known works, Ficciones (transl. Fictions) and El Aleph, published in the 1940s, are collections of short stories exploring motifs such as dreams, labyrinths, chance, infinity, archives, mirrors, fictional writers, and mythology. Borges's works have contributed to philosophical literature and the fantasy genre, and have had a major influence on the magical realist movement in 20th century Latin American literature.
