Ficciones
Ficciones is a collection of short stories by Jorge Luis Borges, first published in Spanish by Editorial Sur in Argentina in 1944. It added a section, Artifices, to his 1941 The Garden of Forking Paths and includes Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius and The Library of Babel.
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- 2
- First published
- Editorial Sur, Argentina, 1944
- First UK edition
- Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1962
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More by Jorge Luis Borges
- A Universal History of Infamy1935 · 2 editions
- La Biblioteca de Babel1941 · 1 edition
- Other Inquisitions, 1937-19521952 · 1 edition
- Historia de la Eternidad1953 · 1 edition
- The Book of Imaginary Beings1957 · 2 editions
- El Hacedor1960 · 2 editions
- Labyrinths1962 · 2 editions
- A Personal Anthology1967 · 2 editions
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