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Historia universal de la infamia / Ficciones / El Aleph
Jorges Luis Borges
publisher: , 1935/ 1944 / 1949

translated as:
Fictions
publisher: Penguin, 2000
translation: Andrew Hurley

refered to by:
Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel García Márquez

The Discovery of Heaven
Harry Mulisch

House of Leaves
Mark Z. Danielewski

Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov




The Psychiatrist and Other Stories
J.M. Machado de Assis

Marcovaldo: or, The Seasons in the City
Italo Calvino

Snow
Orhan Pamuk


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This is a collection of Borges's fiction, translated and gathered into a single volume. From his 1935 debut with The Universal History of
Iniquity, through the influential collections Ficciones and The Aleph, to his final work from the 1980s, Shakespeare Memory.

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BOOKS BY JORGES LUIS BORGES:

Fictions
1935/ 1944 / 1949
This is a collection of Borges's fiction, translated and gathered into a single volume. From his 1935 debut with The Universal History of Iniquity, through the influential collections Ficciones and The Aleph, to his final work from the 1980s, Shakespeare Memory.
WHAT TO READ AFTER FICTIONS?

TOMBOLA
The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories
Franz Kafka, 1915-1924

Tales of Mystery and Imagination
Edgar Allan Poe, 1833-1849

Pale Fire
Vladimir Nabokov, 1962

[De versierde mens]
Harry Mulisch, 1957

Invisible Cities
Italo Calvino, 1972

The Name of the Rose
Umberto Eco, 1980

The New York Trilogy
Paul Auster, 1985-1986 (published together in 1990)

The Aleph and Other Stories
1949
In stories that play with the very form of the short story, in this collection, Borges returns again and again to his themes: dreams, labyrinths, mirrors, infinite libraries, the manipulations of chance, gaucho knife-fighters, transparent tigers, and the elusive nature of identity itself.
Mahomed's Double
1936
Short story by the 'master of mirrors.' See also Borges and I.
Borges and I
1946
Short story by the 'master of mirrors.' See also Mahomed's Double.
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