Ficciones

Borges didn't just write about labyrinths, libraries, and infinite texts — he understood, better than almost any writer of the twentieth century, that every act of reading is an act of translation. Ficciones is the foundational document of that idea. The story of Pierre Menard alone — a man who rewrites Don Quixote word for word and produces something entirely different — is worth the price of the book. This is where we begin.