Ficciones
1945
- anachronisms
- speculative fiction
- subjective idealism
- duodecimals
- aneurysms
- adjectives
- hermeticism
- philanthropy
- cabala
- persecution
The story
A collection of his short stories in which Borges often uses the labyrinth as a literary device to expound his ideas on all aspects of human life and endeavor. ---------- Contains: [Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL444914W)
What it’s like
Cool, cerebral prose with the dry precision of an encyclopedia entry turned into a dream: sentences that state impossible things as calmly as weather reports, footnotes that feel like they belong to a real library, and a recurring sense of mirrors, maps and corridors folding back on themselves. The mood is intellectual vertigo rather than fear, a quiet, late-night unease that settles in while the reader is lost in a citation about a country that never existed. Pacing is brisk and unhurried at once, each story a compact puzzle that opens onto a larger idea about time, identity and infinity. The emotional register is detached and wry, with flashes of melancholy and wonder, and the characters are mostly scholars, narrators and obsessives who gradually lose their footing in their own inquiries. Violence is rare and remote, handled with cool understatement, so the stories carry dread through ideas rather than gore or cruelty. It suits a rainy Sunday with a notebook nearby, or a solitary evening when you want your thinking stretched, and it is for readers who enjoy labyrinths of logic, ideas wearing the costume of fiction, and the pleasure of being gently misled.
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