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Borges sends us on a journey into a compelling, bizarre, and profoundly resonant realm; we enter the fearful sphere of Pascal’s abyss, the surreal and literal labyrinth of books, and the iconography of eternal return. More playful and approachable than the fictions themselves are Borges’s Prologues, brief elucidations that offer the uninitiated a passageway into the whirlwind of Borges’s genius and mirror the precision and potency of his intellect and inventiveness, his piercing irony, his skepticism, and his obsession with fantasy. To enter the worlds in Ficciones is to enter the mind of Jorge Luis Borges, wherein lies Heaven, Hell, and everything in between. Review: Both what I expected and yet something wholly more delightfully FUN than I ever dreamed - I had had almost no exposure to the works of Jorge Luis Borges before I read Ficciones, a collection of 17 of the Argentinian author's short fiction pieces, and what I expected was fiction that lived on the line between magic realism and surrealism, with a sense of wonder and mystery to it all. And I got that...but what I also got was wild postmodernism, meta-commentary about books that come to life in the telling, mysteries that are interested in nothing so much as subverting themselves, surprisingly funny satire on pretentious literary criticism, meditations on when something goes from imitation to art, and so, so much more. In short: I expected to be awed; what I didn't expect - but was delighted about - was to have fun. There's so much here to talk about, from the layers and layers of reality that make up "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" to the wildly convoluted (maybe?) mystery pastiche of "Death and the Compass." You'll read something like "The Garden of Forking Paths" which somehow manages to be both a clever murder mystery and also an exploration of fate and choice, and then be knocked askew all over again with the wry comedy of "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote." Sometimes, you're not sure if you're seeing everything that Borges wants you to see; sometimes, you're not sure if there's anything beyond a man delighting himself with his imagination and labyrinthine mind. But whatever it is, you're getting 17 true classics of literature, which will bend your mind in new ways, make you laugh, and upend your expectations, over and over again. It's one of those books where, after a few pages, you say, "oh, that's why everyone talks about it" - and now you want to too. Review: Casually undermining the universe. - I feel unfettered praise coming on. So first let me note that not every story in this collection garners five stars from me. Some of them are simply not for me. Some are good but not great. And still others are probably genius but I'm missing some key underlying component which would reveal the secret to me. The man is brilliant, and seemingly more well-read than God, so who can say what all I'm missing? But, I will use my review here to discuss my favorites of the bunch (all of which came from the first portion of the collection, The Garden of Forking Paths, and none of which came from the second portion, Artifices.) These are five-star stories; ones that I have been thinking about since I read them. They are: "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius", "The Babylon Lottery", and my favorite of the collection, "The Library of Babel." These are explorations of the mind. Mirrors. Illusions. Dreams, and their dreamers. This is the universe. Chance. Fate. Infinitudes. Fractals. Time. Memory. Divinity. A master of the short work, Borges accomplishes in ten pages what some authors struggle to broach in a thousand. You yearn for more, but the magic lies in the yearning, not in the idea of more. He is a conjuror, Borges, who understands that the question is always more intriguing than the answer, and so he delights in pulling you through each explorative permutation of the question, opening new corridors in your mind and reminding you of the magic of a new thought. Occupying the liminal space between reality and fiction, his stories are as much about what they produce in the reader as they are about what actually appears on the page; more so, even. I finished some of these stories at a loss to describe them. After "The Library of Babel", a mere eight pages, reality was momentarily an alien thing to me. The mind which produced the story seemed so conceptually alien that he felt like an ambassador from some far-flung future writing back to us through time. I had of course heard of Borges before, but I was unaware of what to expect from his stories. As such, I was completely blown away; and more than once. His influence has clearly sent ripples through fiction, through science-fiction, through magical realism, and through many, many creations since his time. And they are fiction, yes, these stories. But often they felt more like a vehicle of exploration; linguistic, philosophical, psychological, metaphysical, religious, mathematical, of course literary. From detective stories to the universe as library, there's a little something of everything here. And I'll certainly be reading more. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #19,514 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #34 in Hispanic American Literature & Fiction #191 in Short Stories (Books) #1,118 in Literary Fiction (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.3 out of 5 stars 1,265 Reviews | ## Images ![Ficciones - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71o9S16CpTL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Both what I expected and yet something wholly more delightfully FUN than I ever dreamed *by J***E on August 4, 2024* I had had almost no exposure to the works of Jorge Luis Borges before I read Ficciones, a collection of 17 of the Argentinian author's short fiction pieces, and what I expected was fiction that lived on the line between magic realism and surrealism, with a sense of wonder and mystery to it all. And I got that...but what I also got was wild postmodernism, meta-commentary about books that come to life in the telling, mysteries that are interested in nothing so much as subverting themselves, surprisingly funny satire on pretentious literary criticism, meditations on when something goes from imitation to art, and so, so much more. In short: I expected to be awed; what I didn't expect - but was delighted about - was to have fun. There's so much here to talk about, from the layers and layers of reality that make up "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" to the wildly convoluted (maybe?) mystery pastiche of "Death and the Compass." You'll read something like "The Garden of Forking Paths" which somehow manages to be both a clever murder mystery and also an exploration of fate and choice, and then be knocked askew all over again with the wry comedy of "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote." Sometimes, you're not sure if you're seeing everything that Borges wants you to see; sometimes, you're not sure if there's anything beyond a man delighting himself with his imagination and labyrinthine mind. But whatever it is, you're getting 17 true classics of literature, which will bend your mind in new ways, make you laugh, and upend your expectations, over and over again. It's one of those books where, after a few pages, you say, "oh, that's why everyone talks about it" - and now you want to too. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Casually undermining the universe. *by B***D on December 9, 2022* I feel unfettered praise coming on. So first let me note that not every story in this collection garners five stars from me. Some of them are simply not for me. Some are good but not great. And still others are probably genius but I'm missing some key underlying component which would reveal the secret to me. The man is brilliant, and seemingly more well-read than God, so who can say what all I'm missing? But, I will use my review here to discuss my favorites of the bunch (all of which came from the first portion of the collection, The Garden of Forking Paths, and none of which came from the second portion, Artifices.) These are five-star stories; ones that I have been thinking about since I read them. They are: "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius", "The Babylon Lottery", and my favorite of the collection, "The Library of Babel." These are explorations of the mind. Mirrors. Illusions. Dreams, and their dreamers. This is the universe. Chance. Fate. Infinitudes. Fractals. Time. Memory. Divinity. A master of the short work, Borges accomplishes in ten pages what some authors struggle to broach in a thousand. You yearn for more, but the magic lies in the yearning, not in the idea of more. He is a conjuror, Borges, who understands that the question is always more intriguing than the answer, and so he delights in pulling you through each explorative permutation of the question, opening new corridors in your mind and reminding you of the magic of a new thought. Occupying the liminal space between reality and fiction, his stories are as much about what they produce in the reader as they are about what actually appears on the page; more so, even. I finished some of these stories at a loss to describe them. After "The Library of Babel", a mere eight pages, reality was momentarily an alien thing to me. The mind which produced the story seemed so conceptually alien that he felt like an ambassador from some far-flung future writing back to us through time. I had of course heard of Borges before, but I was unaware of what to expect from his stories. As such, I was completely blown away; and more than once. His influence has clearly sent ripples through fiction, through science-fiction, through magical realism, and through many, many creations since his time. And they are fiction, yes, these stories. But often they felt more like a vehicle of exploration; linguistic, philosophical, psychological, metaphysical, religious, mathematical, of course literary. From detective stories to the universe as library, there's a little something of everything here. And I'll certainly be reading more. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great! *by D***Z on April 25, 2026* Great book! ## Frequently Bought Together - Ficciones - The Aleph and Other Stories (Penguin Classics) - Labyrinths (New Directions Paperbook) --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.in/products/4464839-ficciones](https://www.desertcart.in/products/4464839-ficciones) --- *Product available on Desertcart India* *Store origin: IN* *Last updated: 2026-05-25*