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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. Thirteen stories from Ficciones were first published by New Directions in the English-language anthology Labyrinths (1962).
"The Two Kings and the Two Labyrinths" (original Spanish title: "Historia de los dos reyes y los dos laberintos") is a short story by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges, first published in February 1936. [1] It was later included in El Aleph under the title "Los dos reyes y los dos laberintos".
"The Aleph" (Spanish: El Aleph) is a short story by Argentine writer and poet Jorge Luis Borges. First published in September 1945, it was reprinted in the short story collection The Aleph and Other Stories in 1949, and revised by the author in 1974.
"The Book of Sand" (Spanish: El libro de arena) is a 1975 short story by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges about the discovery of a book with infinite pages. It has parallels to the same author's 1949 story " The Zahir " (revised in 1974), continuing the theme of self-reference and attempting to abandon the terribly infinite, and to his 1941 ...
It is considered one of the shortest stories in Spanish, [1] and its whole text is the following: Cuando despertó, el dinosaurio todavía estaba allí. Meaning: When he/she/it woke, the dinosaur was still there. It is a simple sentence that forms a flash story, probably the most famous of all those published by Monterroso throughout his career.
"The South" inspired and is referenced in the short story "The Insufferable Gaucho" [4] by Roberto Bolaño. The short story is read by Mick Jagger's character in the 1970 film Performance. The movie contains several other allusions to Borges. Julio Cortázar's short story La noche boca arriba is a retelling of Borges's short story "The South."
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The Aleph and Other Stories (Spanish: El Aleph, 1949) is a book of short stories by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges. The title work, "The Aleph", describes a point in space that contains all other spaces at once. The work also presents the idea of infinite time.