Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) was an Argentine writer best known for short stories and essays that explore labyrinths, infinity, time and memory.

Published major short story collections including Ficciones and El Aleph; influential on magical realism and metafiction; blind for much of later life.

Reviews praise Borges' compact, erudite short stories that explore infinity, time, memory and labyrinthine ideas. Ficciones and L'Aleph are the collections most discussed here. Readers describe the work as demanding, philosophical, and deeply imaginative.

For:Readers of philosophical, metafictional short stories and fans of Latin American literature.

 The man, this imperfect librarian, can be the work of chance or malevolent demiurges; the universe, with its elegant provision of shelves, enigmatic volumes, tireless ladders for the traveler, and latrines for the seated librarian, can only be the work of a god

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 The tiring and disheartening delusion of the compiler of large books, of spreading in five hundred pages a concept that could be perfectly explained verbally in a few minutes! Better to pretend these books already exist, and present a summary, a commentary.

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 I have been Homer; soon, I will be no one, like Ulysses; soon, I will be everyone: I will be dead.

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