![]() First, it came out of nowhere, because that is where Argentina was for even the most cosmopolitan English-bound sensibility. The anglophone literary world at that time made use of a set of pigeonholes, and the work of Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) fit nicely into several. A glance at what happened to that collection lets us track how that whisper became a roar, and how a writer could surf a wave that he himself had started. ![]() Borges's collection whispered from the library that literature had a new subject: literature itself. ![]() Ficciones, by Jorge Luis Borges, a slim collection of 17 short stories that first appeared in 1944, has, over time, made waves in the pond of literature that only a door-stopper of a prose epic such as Joyce's Ulysses can match. When it comes to imaginative influence, size really doesn't matter.
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