Spanish Book Club: Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges 📚

Hello everyone! The next book we're going to be reading is the short story collection Ficciones by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges.

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 non-existent writer’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’s greatness lies in the fact that his fictions— elaborately paradoxical, postmodern and intellectually delicious as they are — 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.

You can find the book in Spanish:
Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ficciones-Jorge-Luis-Borges/dp/849908950X
Book Delivery: https://www.bookdelivery.com/gb-en/book-ficciones/9780307950925/p/9198666
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPUQ7Tgm85c

But also in English if you'd prefer (there are multiple translations, so feel free to have a further browse yourself and decide which you think is best for you):
Bookshop dot org: https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/fictions-jorge-luis-borges/cbd136e6d135bc8b?ean=9780141183848
Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ficciones-Everymans-Library-Classics-Borges/dp/1857151666
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBkR92zU2opmHMLv44zDyC1ntt9tUxvxa

It's highly recommended that you read the whole book (in Spanish, English or the language of your choosing!) before the date of the book club; however, you are still welcome to come if you don't quite manage it.

An intermediate/advanced level of Spanish is welcome but not mandatory. The goal of the book club is to analyse the book of the month and engage in literary discussion in Spanish. However, if you are worried your level might not be up to such a discussion, you're still welcome to read, come along and listen in (and join in if you muster the confidence). We are a mixed ability group and you don't need to be able to express your thoughts perfectly!

¡Te esperamos!