Borges’ Ficciones Transcends Traditional Realism
At a glance:
- Series: Great Events from History II: Arts and Culture Series
- Categories: Literature, Publishing
- Subcategories: Authors, Writers, Novelists, Short Story Writers, Latinos, Hispanics, Chicanos
- Curriculum: Latin American History
- Geographical Location: Argentina
- Date: 1944
Article abstract: The dazzling short stories in Jorge Luis Borges’ Ficciones, 1935-1944 transformed Latin American fiction, linking it to the European tradition of visionary literature and pointing forward to modernist concerns.
Summary of Event
In 1944, the Argentinean poet, short-story writer, and essayist Jorge Luis Borges published Ficciones, 1935-1944, a collection of his short stories. Each story was a pocket universe; each one was built on paradox; each one contained its own infinity.
These were stories unlike any others, and yet...
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