Borges, et al

[Andrew Dinn]

LARSSON at vax1.mankato.msus.edu writes:

> Borges' ficciones always have struck as being not so much stories, as 
> descriptions of what those stories would be like if someone actually wrote
> them!

In my copy of Ficciones Borges' introduction points out that the
linking theme throughout the stories is that they deal with imaginary
books and authors. Actually I think this only applies to the first
half of the book, Ficciones being a compendium formed from two
collections of stories.


Andrew Dinn
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