The seventeen pieces in Ficciones demonstrate the gargantuan powers of
imagination, intelligence, and style of one of the greatest writers of this or
any other century. Borges sends us on a journey into a compelling, bizarre, and
profoundly resonant realm; we enter the fearful sphere of Pascal?s abyss, the
surreal and literal labyrinth of books, and the iconography of eternal return.
More playful and approachable than the fictions themselves are Borges?s
Prologues, brief elucidations that offer the uninitiated a passageway into the
whirlwind of Borges?s genius and mirror the precision and potency of his
intellect and inventiveness, his piercing irony, his skepticism, and his
obsession with fantasy. To