Ficciones

Fictions
First English edition
Author	Jorge Luis Borges
Original title	Ficciones
Translator	Anthony Bonner
Country	Argentina
Language	Spanish
Publisher	Editorial Sur (1944) Emecé (1956)
Publication date	1941-2, 1944, 1956
Published in English	1962 by Grove Press
Media type	Print
Pages	203pp (1944) 197pp (1956)

Ficciones is the most popular anthology of short stories by Argentine writer and poet Jorge Luis Borges, often considered the best introduction to his work.

• 1941: Borges' first anthology appears, The Garden of Forking Paths (El Jardín de senderos que se bifurcan)
• 1944: The anthology Ficciones is published, including the 1941 volume as its first half.
• 1948: The story, The Garden of Forking Paths, is translated into English by Anthony Boucher and published in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine
• 1962: Anthony Bonner produces an English translation of Ficciones

Ficciones should not be confused with Labyrinths, although they have much in common. Labyrinths is a separate translation of Borges' material, by James E. Irby, that also appeared in 1962. Together, these two translations led to much of Borges' worldwide fame in the 60s. Several stories appear in both volumes. The Approach to Al-Mu'tasim was originally in History of Eternity (1936).

Contents

• Part One: The Garden of Forking Paths
  • Prologue
  • Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius (1940)
  • The Approach to Al-Mu'tasim (1936, not included in the 1941 edition)
  • Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote (1939)
  • The Circular Ruins (1940)
  • The Babylon Lottery (1941)
  • An Examination of the Work of Herbert Quain (1941)
  • The Library of Babel (1941)
  • The Garden of Forking Paths (1941)
• Part Two: Artifices
  • Prologue
  • Funes the Memorious (1942)
  • The Form of the Sword (1942)
  • Theme of the Traitor and the Hero (1944)
  • Death and the Compass (1942)
  • The Secret Miracle (1943)
  • Three Versions of Judas (1944)
  • The End (1953, 2nd edition only)
  • The Sect of the Phoenix (1952, 2nd edition only)
  • The South (1953, 2nd edition only)

External links

• Bibliography maintained at University of Pittsburgh

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