Spanish Book Club: Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges 📚

Hello everyone! The next book we're going to be reading is the short story collection *Ficciones* by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges. The seventeen brief masterpieces of *Ficciones* explode the boundaries of genre, offering up labyrinthine libraries, a fictional encyclopedia entry that spawns an entire world, a review of a non-existent writer’s attempt to re-create Don Quixote word for word, a man with the disabling inability to forget anything he has ever experienced, and other metaphysical puzzles. But the true measure of Borges’s greatness lies in the fact that his fictions— elaborately paradoxical, postmodern and intellectually delicious as they are — managed to return the short story to the realm of the fabulous and the uncanny from which, as parable and fairy tale, it originally came. You can find the book in Spanish: Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ficciones-Jorge-Luis-Borges/dp/849908950X Book Delivery: https://www.bookdelivery.com/gb-en/book-ficciones/9780307950925/p/9198666 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPUQ7Tgm85c But also in English if you'd prefer (there are multiple translations, so feel free to have a further browse yourself and decide which you think is best for you): Bookshop dot org: https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/fictions-jorge-luis-borges/cbd136e6d135bc8b?ean=9780141183848 Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ficciones-Everymans-Library-Classics-Borges/dp/1857151666 YouTube:…