Ficciones

Ficciones gathers short stories Jorge Luis Borges wrote in Spanish between 1941 and 1956, combining The Garden of Forking Paths with a later section called Artifices. Grove Press published the whole book in English in 1962. Paulo Coelho read one of the stories, The Babel Library, in a science fiction magazine at 20 and fell for Borges’s style and universe. He says Borges is the only South American writer whose books he has all read and reread.