Ficciones

Ficciones—comprising the books The Garden of Forking Paths (1941) and Artifices (1944)—is arguably Jorge Luis Borges’s most renowned work. Within its pages, one finds the detective story ("Death and the Compass") and the fantastic ("The Lottery in Babylon"), the unreal ("The Circular Ruins") and the imaginary ("Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius"), the story Borges himself considered perhaps his finest ("The South"), and the one featuring an opening line—"No one saw him disembark in the unanimous night..."—that hundreds of thousands of readers have hailed as one of the most captivating ever written. Each of the sixteen stories collected here is, in itself, a foundational piece and a celebration of the Borgesian universe. Regarded by international critics as one of the greatest books of all time, *Ficciones* transformed the way future generations would write and read.