Ficciones: Introduction by John Sturrock (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series)Jorge Luis Borges was one of those very rare creators who changed the face of an art formin 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. 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

while very very drunk and if someone kisses you

a veteran of Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue

Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth is a masterfuland timeless interrogation of race

from race and gender to sex and drugs—building new narratives about how politics can feel good and how what feels good always has a complex politics of its own

I pat myself down for flaws and find many

It follows him backward through his life with Bob in the 1970s and forward through the harrowing particulars of death

It is only natural

Recurring female characters may be figures of Cairo herself

a transforming experience of new love ends under threat of scandal

seriocomic examination of the want behind student / teacher affairs and a scorching literary debut

The Boston Globe

In ten sun-baked