First published 1977
A mind-bending collection curated by the great Jorge Luis Borges. Ranging from ancient Chinese fables to modern Latin American surrealism, these tales twist reality into dreamscapes, where the strange and the familiar collide. Borges assembles a pantheon of literary masters to explore the boundaries of the possible, challenging readers to question the nature of existence itself.
Genres: literary-fiction, 20th-century, fantasy, magical-realism
Vibes: atmospheric, mind-bending, thought-provoking
Tropes: existential, unreliable-narrator
Setting: Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius, Buenos Aires, Lucerne, London, United States, Memphis
Period: 1935-1947, 17th century, 1947, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1944
384 pages · Hardcover · Viking Adult