(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)<br><br>Jorge Luis Borges was one of those very rare creators who changed the face of an art form&#8212;in his case, the short story. His work has been paid the ultimate honor of being appropriated and imitated by innumerable writers on every continent of the world.<br><br>The seventeen brief masterpieces of FICCIONES explode the boundaries of genre, offering up labyrinthine libraries, a fictional encyclopedia entry that spawns an entire world, a review of a nonexistent writer&#8217;s attempt to re-create Don Quixote word for word, a man with the disabling inability to forget anything he has ever experienced, and other metaphysical puzzles. But the true measure of Borges&#8217;s greatness lies in the fact that his fictions&#8212;elaborately paradoxical, postmodern, and intellectually delicious as they are&#8212;managed to return the short story to the realm of the fabulous and the uncanny from which, as parable and fairy tale, it originally came.