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Ficciones

Also Known As Fictions
Short Fiction and Fable

Ficciones is a collection of short stories by Argentine writer and poet Jorge Luis Borges, originally written and published in Spanish between 1941 and 1956; thirteen of its stories were first published in English by New Directions in the anthology Labyrinths in 1962, the same year Grove Press published the entire book in English under its original title. It became Borges's most famous book and made him known worldwide, and is dedicated to writer Esther Zemborain de Torres Duggan, a friend and collaborator of Borges. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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English 1
Original Language
Spanish 1
Composed, From (Year)
1941 to 1956 1
Composed, From (Year)
from 1944 1
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Short Fiction, Genres
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  • Lead section
    Ficciones (in English: "Fictions") is a collection of short stories by Argentine writer and poet Jorge Luis Borges, originally written and published in Spanish between 1941 and 1956.
  • Original language statement
    Thirteen stories from Ficciones were first published by New Directions in the English-language anthology Labyrinths (1962).
  • Authored By: Jorge Luis Borges, Lead section, authorship
    Ficciones (in English: "Fictions") is a collection of short stories by Argentine writer and poet Jorge Luis Borges.
  • In Genre: Short Fiction, Lead section, genre
    is a collection of short stories by Argentine writer and poet Jorge Luis Borges
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