{"product_id":"collected-fictions","title":"Collected Fictions","description":"\u003cb\u003eFor 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 \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"An event, and cause for celebration.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition with flaps and deckle-edged paper \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor some fifty years, in intriguing and ingenious fictions that reimagined the very form of the short story--from his 1935 debut with \u003ci\u003eA Universal History of Iniquity\u003c\/i\u003e through his immensely influential collections \u003ci\u003eFicciones\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Aleph\u003c\/i\u003e, the enigmatic prose poems of \u003ci\u003eThe Maker\u003c\/i\u003e, up to his final work in the 1980s, \u003ci\u003eShakespeare's Memory\u003c\/i\u003e--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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eCollected Fictions\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor 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.\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 0140286802\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9780140286809\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Borges, Jorge Luis, Hurley, Andrew, N\/A\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Penguin Books\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (Sep 1999)","offer_id":45658112229573,"sku":"9780140286809","price":29.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9780140286809.jpg?v=1768898275","url":"https:\/\/www.inveni.store\/products\/collected-fictions","provider":"Inveni","version":"1.0","type":"link"}