BORGES, Jorge Luis

A prolific Argentinian writer who was by turns both decidedly avant-garde and self-consciously conventional, Borges was educated in Europe (and buried in Geneva) and always read English in the original. He is best treasured for a group of short stories that he called Ficciones (1944; rev. 1961). Written in forms typical of expositions (e.g., a critical article, a librarian's report, a footnoted scholarly essay, a writer's obituary), these fictions portray as they exemplify the primacy of the imagination...