- Ficciones
Infobox Book
name = Fictions
title_orig = Ficciones
translator = Anthony Bonner
image_caption = First English edition
author =Jorge Luis Borges
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country =Argentina
language = Spanish
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publisher = Editorial Sur (1944)
Emecé (1956)
pub_date = 1941-2, 1944, 1956
english_pub_date = 1962
media_type = Print
pages = 203pp (1944)
197pp (1956)
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followed_by ="Ficciones" is the most popular anthology of
short stories byJorge Luis Borges , and is considered by many to be the best introduction to his work.* 1941: Borges's 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 byAnthony 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 ", though 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's 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
* [http://www.borges.pitt.edu/english.php Bibliography maintained at University of Pittsburgh]
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