Praise for Ficciones: "Without Borges the modern Latin American novel simply would not exist." -Carlos Fuentes "In resounding the note of the marvelous last struck in English by Wells and Chesterson, in permitting infinity to enter and distort his imagination, has lifted fiction away from the flat earth where most of our novels and short stories still take place." -John Updike "These brief Ficciones have to be read one at a time, and slowly then they throb with uncanny and haunting power." -The Atlantic Monthly "Borges is the most important Spanish-language writer since Cervantes." -Mario Vargas Llosa " engages the heart as well as the intelligence his genius strikes, undismayed as Theseus, through the labyrinths of our life and time to the accomplishment of new, inspiring and stunningly beautiful work." -John Barth "One of the finest, subtlest, and least appreciated of comedians.
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