#2 in Short stories
Ficciones
- 196
- Pages
- about 3.5 h
- Reading time
- Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century
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Our view
“Ficciones” packs a great deal of thought into fewer than two hundred pages; it is the book that made Borges’s name worldwide. These are stories of ideas and riddles more than of events, reflective and mysterious in mood. Some readers get nothing from them and find the collection simply dull. Best for those who like a tale to leave them something to puzzle over.
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About the book
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 stories from Ficciones were first published by New Directions in the English-language anthology Labyrinths (1962). In the same year, Grove Press published the entirety of the book in English, using the same title as in the original language. "The Approach to Al-Mu'tasim" originally appeared published in A History of Eternity (1936). Ficciones became Borges's most famous book and made him known worldwide.
Where the score comes from
The sources average 8.7 across 335 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 70% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Short stories average of 7.8. That is how 8.4 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 8.8 | 40 | 12% |
| Hardcover | 8.7 | 295 | 88% |
Frequently asked
How long is Ficciones?
It has 196 pages — shorter than 73% of the ranked books in Short stories.
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