The most popular anthology of Jorge Luis Borges\047 short stories, "Fictions" is a wildly original and influential collection of fantastic tales, translated from the Spanish with an afterword by Andrew Hurley in "Penguin Modern Classics". Jorge Luis Borges\047 "Fictions" introduced an entirely new voice into world literature. It is here that we find the astonishing accounts of \047Funes the Memorious\047, the man who can forget nothing; \047Pierre Menard, Author of the "Quixote"\047, who recreates Miguel de Cervantes\047 epic word-for-word; a society run on the basis of an all-encompassing game of chance in \047The Lottery in Babylon\047; the mysterious world of \047Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius\047 which seems to be supplanting our own; and the \047Library of Babel\047, which contains every possible book in the whole universe. Here too are the philosophical detective stories and the haunting tales of Irish revolutionaries, gaucho knife fights and dreams within dreams which proved so influential (and yet impossible to imitate). This collection was eventually to bring Borges international fame; over fifty years later, it remains endlessly intriguing.