{"product_id":"ficciones-introduction-by-john-sturrock-9780679422990","title":"Ficciones: Introduction by John Sturrock","description":"\u003cp\u003eJorge Luis Borges was one of those very rare creators who changed the face of an art form--in his case, the short story. His work has been paid the ultimate honor of being appropriated and imitated by innumerable writers on every continent of the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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 nonexistent 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jorge Luis Borges\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Everyman's Library\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/25\/1993\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeries:\u003c\/b\u003e Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.7lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.22h x 5.25w x 0.67d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780679422990","brand":"Everyman's Library","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47462463832201,"sku":"9780679422990","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_cbdba689-0c05-4386-917a-351c475b6e19.jpg?v=1784058966","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/ficciones-introduction-by-john-sturrock-9780679422990","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}