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Collected Fictions

By Jorge Luis Borges
Translated by Andrew Hurley

By Jorge Luis Borges
Translated by Andrew Hurley

By Jorge Luis Borges
Read by Castulo Guerra
Translated by Andrew Hurley

By Jorge Luis Borges
Read by Castulo Guerra
Translated by Andrew Hurley

By Jorge Luis Borges
Read by George Guidall
Translated by Andrew Hurley

By Jorge Luis Borges
Read by George Guidall
Translated by Andrew Hurley

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    About Collected Fictions

    For the first time in English, all the fiction by the writer who has been called “the greatest Spanish-language writer of our century” collected in a single volume

    “An event, and cause for celebration.”—The New York Times

    A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition with flaps and deckle-edged paper
     
    For some fifty years, in intriguing and ingenious fictions that reimagined the very form of the short story—from his 1935 debut with A Universal History of Iniquity through his immensely influential collections Ficciones and The Aleph, the enigmatic prose poems of The Maker, up to his final work in the 1980s, Shakespeare’s Memory—Jorge Luis Borges returned again and again to his celebrated themes: dreams, duels, labyrinths, mirrors, infinite libraries, the manipulations of chance, gauchos, knife fighters, tigers, and the elusive nature of identity itself. Playfully experimenting with ostensibly subliterary genres, he took the detective story and turned it into metaphysics; he took fantasy writing and made it, with its questioning and reinventing of everyday reality, central to the craft of fiction; he took the literary essay and put it to use reviewing wholly imaginary books.

    Bringing together for the first time in English all of Borges’s magical stories, and all of them newly rendered into English in brilliant translations by Andrew Hurley, Collected Fictions is the perfect one-volume compendium for all who have long loved Borges, and a superb introduction to the master’s work for all who have yet to discover this singular genius.

    For more than seventy-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 2,000 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

    About Collected Fictions

    For the first time in English, all the fiction by the writer who has been called “the greatest Spanish-language writer of our century” collected in a single volume

    “An event, and cause for celebration.”—The New York Times

    A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition with flaps and deckle-edged paper
     
    For some fifty years, in intriguing and ingenious fictions that reimagined the very form of the short story—from his 1935 debut with A Universal History of Iniquity through his immensely influential collections Ficciones and The Aleph, the enigmatic prose poems of The Maker, up to his final work in the 1980s, Shakespeare’s Memory—Jorge Luis Borges returned again and again to his celebrated themes: dreams, duels, labyrinths, mirrors, infinite libraries, the manipulations of chance, gauchos, knife fighters, tigers, and the elusive nature of identity itself. Playfully experimenting with ostensibly subliterary genres, he took the detective story and turned it into metaphysics; he took fantasy writing and made it, with its questioning and reinventing of everyday reality, central to the craft of fiction; he took the literary essay and put it to use reviewing wholly imaginary books.

    Bringing together for the first time in English all of Borges’s magical stories, and all of them newly rendered into English in brilliant translations by Andrew Hurley, Collected Fictions is the perfect one-volume compendium for all who have long loved Borges, and a superb introduction to the master’s work for all who have yet to discover this singular genius.

    For more than seventy-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 2,000 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

    About Collected Fictions

    Jorge Luis Borges has been called the greatest Spanish-language writer of our century. A selection of Borges’ dazzling fictions are gathered in this audiobook, brilliantly translated by Andrew Hurley. These enigmatic, elaborate, imaginative inventions display Borges’ talent for turning fiction on its head by playing with form and genre and toying with language. Together these incomparable works comprise the perfect compendium for all those who have long loved Borges, and a superb introduction to the master’s work for those who have yet to discover this singular genius.

    Selections include: Borges and I, The Garden of Forking Paths, Man on Pink Corner, The Library of Babel, Death and the Compass, The Lottery in Babylon, The Maker, The Zahir, The Encounter, The Circular Ruins, Shakespeare’s Memory, August 25, 1983, The Immortal, Parable of Cervantes and the Quixote, The Story from Rosendo Juárez, The Aleph, and Dreamtigers.

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    About Jorge Luis Borges

    Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) was an Argentine poet, essayist, and author of short stories. His most notable works as a key literary Spanish-language figure of the twentieth century include Ficciones (Fictions) and El Aleph (The Aleph). He received a BA from… More about Jorge Luis Borges

    About Jorge Luis Borges

    Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) was an Argentine poet, essayist, and author of short stories. His most notable works as a key literary Spanish-language figure of the twentieth century include Ficciones (Fictions) and El Aleph (The Aleph). He received a BA from… More about Jorge Luis Borges

    About Jorge Luis Borges

    Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) was an Argentine poet, essayist, and author of short stories. His most notable works as a key literary Spanish-language figure of the twentieth century include Ficciones (Fictions) and El Aleph (The Aleph). He received a BA from… More about Jorge Luis Borges

    Product Details

    Category: Short Stories | Literary Fiction

    Paperback | $29.00
    Published by Penguin Books
    Sep 01, 1999 | 576 Pages | 5-5/8 x 8-7/16 | ISBN 9780140286809

    Category: Short Stories | Literary Fiction | Audiobooks

    Audiobook Download | $30.00
    Published by Penguin Audio
    Aug 22, 2023 | 1645 Minutes | ISBN 9780593792216

    Category: Short Stories | Literary Fiction | Audiobooks

    Audiobook Download | $15.00
    Published by Penguin Audio
    Jun 24, 2010 | 314 Minutes | ISBN 9781101223192

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    Praise

    A New York Times Notable Book
     
    “A marvelous new collection of stories by one of the most remarkable writers of our century.” —The New York Times

    “The major work of probably the most influential Latin American writer of the century.” —The Washington Post

    “An unparalleled treasury of marvels . . . Along with a tiny cohort of peers, and seers (Kafka and Joyce come to mind), Borges is more than a stunning storyteller and a brilliant stylist; he’s a mirror who reflects the spirit of his time.” —Chicago Tribune

    “This book is a real feast, prepared by one of the greatest modern confectioners of sheer fiction.” —The Seattle Times

    “An event worth of celebration . . . Hurley deserves our enthusiastic praise for this monumental piece of work.” —San Francisco Chronicle

    “Beneath Borges’s paradoxical twists and inverted spells there is the deeper, ineffably human magic of all great literature.” —Los Angeles Times

    “Borges is the most important Spanish-language writer since Cervantes. . . . To have denied him the Nobel Prize is as bad as the case of Joyce, Proust, and Kafka.” —Mario Vargas Llosa

    “Though so different in style, two writers have offered us an image for the next millennium: Joyce and Borges. The first designed with words what the second designed with ideas: the original, the one and only World Wide Web. The Real Thing. The rest will remain simply virtual.” —Umberto Eco

    “It is a deep pleasure to read the Collected Fictions of Borges in Andrew Hurley’s capable new version. Old favorites like ‘Death and the Compass’ and ‘The Immortal’ are revivified by Hurley. There is also a particular satisfaction in having all of the stories in one volume.” —Harold Bloom

    “What are we to make of him? The economy of his prose, the tact of his imagery, the courage of his thought are there to be admired and emulated. In resounding the note of the marvelous last struck in English by Wells and Chesterton, in permitting infinity to enter and distort his imagination, he has lifted fiction away from the flat earth where most of our novels and short stories still take place.” —John Updike

    “When I read a good book, I sometimes like to think I might be capable of writing something similar, but never, in my wildest dreams, could I write anything that approaches the level of cleverness and intellect and madness of Borges. I don’t think anyone could.” —Daniel Radcliffe

    Table Of Contents

    Collected FictionsA Universal History of Iniquity (1935)
    Preface to the First Edition
    Preface to the 1954 Edition
    The Cruel Redeemer Lazarus Morell
    The Improbable Impostor Tom Castro
    The Widow Ching – Pirate
    Monk Eastman, Purveyor of Iniquities
    The Disinterested Killer Bill Harrigan
    The Uncivil Teacher of Court Etiquette Kôtsuké no Suké
    Hakim, the Masked Dyer of Merv
    Man on Pink Corner
    Et cetera
    Index of Sources

    Fictions (1944)

    The Garden of Forking Paths (1941)
    Foreword
    Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius
    The Approach to Al-Mu’tasim
    Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote
    The Circular Ruins
    The Lottery in Babylon
    A Survey of the Works of Herbert Quain
    The Library of Babel
    The Garden of Forking Paths

    Artifices (1944)
    Foreword
    Funes, His Memory
    The Shape of the Sword
    The Theme of the Traitor and the Hero
    Death and the Compass
    The Secret Miracle
    Three Versions of Judas
    The End
    The Cult of the Phoenix
    The South

    The Aleph (1949)
    The Immortal
    The Dead Man
    The Theologians
    Story of the Warrior and the Captive Maiden
    A Biography of Tadeo Isidoro Cruz (1829-1874)
    Emma Zunz
    The House of Asterion
    The Other Death
    Deutsches Requiem
    Avveroës’ Search
    The Zahir
    The Writing of the God
    Ibn-Hakam al-Bokhari, Murdered in His Labyrinth
    The Two Kings and the Two Labyrinths
    The Wait
    The Man on the Threshold
    The Aleph
    Afterword

    The Maker (1960)
    Foreword: For Leopoldo Lugones
    The Maker
    Dreamtigers
    A Dialog About a Dialog
    Toenails
    Covered Mirrors
    Argumentum Ornithologicum
    The Captive
    The Mountebank
    Delia Elena San Marco
    A Dialog Between Dead Men
    The Plot
    A Problem
    The Yellow Rose
    The Witness
    Martin Fierro
    Mutations
    Parable of Cervantes and the Quixote
    Paradiso, XXXI, 108
    Parable of the Palace
    Everything and Nothing
    Ragnarök
    Inferno, I, 32
    Borges and I

    Museum
    On Exactitude in Science
    In Memoriam, J.F.K.
    Afterword

    In Praise of Darkness (1969)
    Foreword
    The Ethnographer
    Pedro Salvadores
    Legend
    A Prayer
    His End and His Beginning

    Brodie’s Report (1970)
    Foreword
    The Interloper
    Unworthy
    The Story from Rosendo Juárez
    The Encounter
    Juan Muraña
    The Elderly Lady
    The Duel
    The Other Duel
    Guayaquil
    The Gospel According to Mark
    Brodie’s Report

    The Book of Sand (1975)
    The Other
    Ulrikke
    The Congress
    There Are More Things
    The Sect of the Thirty
    The Night of the Gifts
    The Mirror and the Mask
    “Undr”
    A Weary Man’s Utopia
    The Bribe
    Avelino Arredondo
    The Disk
    The Book of Sand
    Afterword

    Shakespeare’s Memory (1983)
    August 25, 1983
    Blue Tigers
    The Rose of Paracelsus
    Shakespeare’s Memory

    A Note on the Translation
    Acknowledgments
    Notes to the Fictions

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