![]() ![]() It's a pleasure to be reminded that Borges's style-poetic, dreamlike, and compounded of innumerable small surprises-was already in place by 1935, when he published A Universal History of Iniquity: "The earth we inhabit is an error, an incompetent parody. ![]() Andrew Hurley has done readers a great service, then, by collecting all the stories in a single, meticulously translated volume. Yet his work remained dispersed among a half-dozen different collections, some of them increasingly hard to find. And by 1961, when he shared the French Prix Formentor with Samuel Beckett, he seemed suddenly to tower over a half-dozen literary cultures, the very exemplar of modernism with a human face.īy the time of his death in 1986, Borges had been granted old master status by almost everybody (except, alas, the gentlemen of the Swedish Academy). This collection, which included the cream of the author's short fictions, made it clear that Borges was a world-class (if highly unclassifiable) artist-a brilliant, lyrical miniaturist, who could pose the great questions of existence on the head of pin. ![]() In 1951, however, Ficciones appeared in French, followed soon after by an English translation. Although Jorge Luis Borges published his first book in 1923-doling out his own money for a limited edition of Fervor de Buenos Aires-he remained in Argentinian obscurity for almost three decades. ![]()
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