{"product_id":"ficciones-hardcover-by-jorge-luis-borges-introduction-by-john-sturrock","title":"Ficciones Hardcover by Jorge Luis Borges; Introduction by John Sturrock","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n                            \n                                \n                                    \u003ch2\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProduct Details\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n                                    \u003cul\u003e\n                                        \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cb\u003eEveryman's Library\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e(1993-05-25)\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                        \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLanguage\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003eEnglish\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                        \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e192\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003epages\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                        \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e9780679422990\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                        \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eItem Weight\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e317.52\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003egrams\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                        \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e8.3 x 5.2 x 0.65\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003ecm\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                    \u003c\/ul\u003e\n                                    \u003cbr\u003e\n                                    \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJorge Luis Borges was one of those very rare creators  who changed the face of an art form—in his case, the short story. His work has been  paid the ultimate honor of being appropriated and imitated by innumerable writers  on every continent of the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe seventeen brief masterpieces of FICCIONES explode  the boundaries of genre, offering up labyrinthine libraries, a fictional encyclopedia  entry that spawns an entire world, a review of a nonexistent writer’s attempt to  re-create Don Quixote word for word, a man with the disabling inability to forget  anything he has ever experienced, and other metaphysical puzzles. But the true measure  of Borges’s greatness lies in the fact that his fictions—elaborately paradoxical,  postmodern, and intellectually delicious as they are—managed to return the short  story to the realm of the fabulous and the uncanny from which, as parable and fairy  tale, it originally came.\u003c\/p\u003e\n                                    \u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n                                    \u003cp\u003eJorge Luis Borges was born in Buenos Aires in 1899 and educated in Europe. One of the most widely acclaimed writers of our time, he published many collections of poems, essays and short stories, before his death in Geneva in June 1986. In 1961 Borges shared the International Publishers' Prize with Samuel Beckett. The Ingram Merrill Foundation granted him its Annual Literary Award in 1966 for his \"outstanding contribution to literature.\" In 1971 Columbia University awarded him the first of many degrees of Doctor of Letters, honoris causa that he was to receive from the English-speaking world. In 1971 he received the fifth biennial Jerusalem Prize and in 1973 was given the Alfonso Reyes Prize, one of Mexico's most prestigious cultural awards. In 1980 he shared the Cervantes Prize (the Spanish world's highest literary accolade) with Gerardo Diego. Borges was Director of the Argentine National Library from 1955 until 1973. Along with Kafka and Joyce, he was one of the most influential writer of the twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n                                \n                            \n                            \u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Best Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":45394207113377,"sku":"BBSNIJ9780679422990","price":35.27,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/2084\/5473\/files\/9780679422990.jpg?v=1763559990","url":"https:\/\/www.bestbookstore.ca\/products\/ficciones-hardcover-by-jorge-luis-borges-introduction-by-john-sturrock","provider":"Best Book Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}