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Collected Fictions

Jorge Luis Borges

First published 1998
Publisher Viking
Format Hardcover
Type Collection
ISBN 0670849707
Cover art Paul Buckley
Pages 565

Notes

{{Tr|Andrew Hurley}}. Hurley notes that his translation of Ficciones is based on the 1956 edition, which added the three final stories and a "postscript" to the preface of "Artifices", but keeps the story "The Approach to Al-Mu'tasim" which was removed from that edition.

  • This collection, translated by Andrew Hurley, contains the stories from the following Borges collections: Historia universal de la infamia, Ficciones, El Aleph, El hacedor, Elogio de la sombra, El informe de Brodie, El libro de arena, and Veinticinco agosto 1983 y otros cuentos. Although Hurley divided the translated collections into separate sections in Collected Fictions, he did not previously publish them separately.
  • Note on the 1998 pub. The copyright page states "Andrew Hurley's translation of 'August 25, 1983' first appeared in The New Yorker and his translation of 'Blue Tigers' in Grand Street." This information is inaccurate. Grand Street did not publish any story translated by Hurley; the story published in the New Yorker (13 April 1998) was "Shakespeare's Memory", and "The Rose of Paracelsus" had also appeared in print, in the New York Review of Books (13 August 1998), before the publication of Collected Fictions.
  • There are at least four printings of this title using this ISBN, according to Abebooks.com dealer listings
  • Data from Amazon.com as of 2010-07-26.
  • Contents from OCLC 38989853

Awards

Year Award Category Status
1999 Locus Poll Award Best Collection Nominee/Finalist

Other Editions

Title Year Publisher Format Type Catalog ID Cover Artist Pages
Collected Fictions Cover 1999 Allen Lane Hardcover Collection Hieronymus Bosch 565
Collected Fictions Cover 1999 Penguin Books (US) Trade Paperback Collection Paul Buckley 565