{"product_id":"ficciones-introduction-by-john-sturrock","title":"Ficciones: Introduction by John Sturrock","description":"\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\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","brand":"John Sturrock, Jorge Luis Borges","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46349716160748,"sku":"9780679422990","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0684\/1791\/3068\/files\/9780679422990.jpg?v=1744167538","url":"https:\/\/allstora.com\/products\/ficciones-introduction-by-john-sturrock","provider":"Allstora","version":"1.0","type":"link"}