Ficciones

"Without Borges the modern Latin American novel simply would not exist." -Carlos Fuentes "In resounding the note of the marvelous last struck in English by Wells and Chesterson, in permitting infinity to enter and distort his imagination, [Borges] has lifted fiction away from the flat earth where most of our novels and short stories still take place." -John Updike

"These brief Ficciones have to be read one at a time, and slowly; then they throb with uncanny and haunting power" -The Atlantic Monthly

"Borges is the most important Spanish-language writer since Cervantes." -Mario Vargas Llosa

"[Borges] engages the heart as well as the intelligence; his genius strikes, undismayed as Theseus, through the labyrinths of our life and time to the accomplishment of new, inspiring and stunningly beautiful work." -John Barth

"One of the finest, subtlest, and least appreciated of comedians...[Borges is] a central fact of Western culture." -The Washington Post Book World

"Borges's composed, carefully wrought, gnarled style is at once the means of his art and its object--his way of ordering and giving meaning to the bizarre and terrifying world he creates: it is a brilliant, burnished instrument, and it is quite adequate to the extreme demands his baroque imagination makes of it . . . . Absolutely and most vividly original." --Saturday Review