Description: 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, [Borges] 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 "[Borges] 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...[Borges is] a central fact of Western culture." -- The Washington Post Book World "Borges's composed, carefully wrought, gnarled style is at once the means of his art and its object--his way of ordering and giving meaning to the bizarre and terrifying world he creates: it is a brilliant, burnished instrument, and it is quite adequate to the extreme demands his baroque imagination makes of it . . . . Absolutely and most vividly original." -- Saturday Review

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