Ficciones

by Borges, Jorge Luis; Kerrigan, Anthony; Bonner, Anthony

• ISBN13: 9780802130303
• ISBN10: 0802130305
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1994-02-01
• Publisher: Ingram Pub Services

Summary

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. 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. To enter the worlds in Ficciones is to enter the mind of Jorge Luis Borges, wherein lies Heaven, Hell, and everything in between.

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION	9	(6)
PART ONE: THE GARDEN OF FORKING PATHS	15	(90)
Prologue	15	(2)
Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius	17	(20)
The Approach to Al-Mu'tasim	37	(8)
Pierre Menard, Author of Don Quixote	45	(12)
The Circular Ruins	57	(8)
The Babylon Lottery	65	(8)
An Examination of the Work of Herbert Quain	73	(6)
The Library of Babel	79	(10)
The Garden of Forking Paths	89	(16)
PART TWO: ARTIFICES	105
Prologue	105	(2)
Funes, the Memorious	107	(10)
The Form of the Sword	117	(6)
Theme of the Traitor and Hero	123	(6)
Death and the Compass	129	(14)
The Secret Miracle	143	(8)
Three Versions of Judas	151	(8)
The End	159	(4)
The Sect of the Phoenix	163	(4)
The South	167