The Canon
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Short stories · 1944

Ficciones

Jorge Luis Borges

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Short stories · 1944 · Argentine · Modern

Ficciones

Jorge Luis Borges

'The Library of Babel', 'Funes the Memorious', 'Pierre Menard'.

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Borges reviews books that do not exist so that the idea can be had without the labour — every story is an epistemology in eight pages.

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