Norman Thomas di Giovanni also produced a number of translations in collaboration with Borges himself, however, most of these are out-of-print. Publication date 1998 Topics Borges, Jorge Luis (1899-1986), Ouvrage de. A subset of the translations from Labyrinths have also been collected alongside a handful of essays in the New Directions-published Everything and Nothing. Penguin has also published Hurley’s translation of The Book of Imaginary Beings, which is not collected in any of the larger volumes of translations. Ficciones Publication date: 1962 Topics: Novels, other prose & writers, Fiction - General, Spanish, Fantasy, Short Stories (single author). Most of the other writings of Borges have also received a recent translation by Andrew Hurley in the Viking/Penguin-published collections Selected Non-Fictions, Selected Poems, and Collected Fictions, subsets of which have been re-published in other collections, such as The Aleph and Other Stories, The Book of Sand and Shakespeare’s Memory, and A Universal History of Iniquity. Of these, I judge Ficciones to be the superior collection of translations (perhaps because I read it first). Historically, Borges’s fame in the English-speaking world started with the 1962 publication of two different and separately-translated short story collections, Ficciones and Labyrinths, which collected overlapping but different sets of stories. Any given short story may appear in one collection or another, and many of these collections were translated by multiple translators working together.

The question “which translation should I read of Borges?” is a complicated one to answer, as Borges is primarily known for his short stories, which have been collected and translated in various forms over the years. Ficciones (English Translation) by Jorge Luis Borges Staff Reviews Details Many of the stories in this collection are a mere 3 pages long, making them perfect for your bedtime reading.

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