The most popular anthology of Jorge Luis Borges's short stories, Fictions is a wildly original and influential collection of fantastic tales, translated from the Spanish with an afterword by Andrew Hurley in Penguin Modern Classics.
Borges was born in Buenos Aires in 1899. A poet, critic and short
story writer, he received numerous awards for his work including
the 1961 International Publisher's Prize (shared with Samuel
Beckett). He died in 1986. He has a reasonable claim, with Kafka
and Joyce, to be the most influential writer of the 20th
Century.
Andrew Hurley is Professor of English at the University of Puerto
Rico in San Juan. He has translated works by Borges, Padilla and
Arenas.
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