Ficciones.

BORGES, Jorge Luis. [Jaqueline Kennedy Onassis].

Item Number: 125676

New York: Grove Press, Inc., 1962.

First edition in English of the author’s classic work. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Jorges Borges on the front free endpaper. From the library of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis with her bookplate to the front pastedown. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Roy Kuhlman. Edited and with an introduction by Anthony Kerrigan. An exceptional association.

The seventeen pieces in Ficciones demonstrate the whirlwind of Borges’s genius and mirror the precision and potency of his intellect and inventiveness, his piercing irony, his skepticism, and his obsession with fantasy. Borges sends us on a journey into a compelling, bizarre, and profoundly resonant realm; we enter the fearful sphere of Pascal’s abyss, the surreal and literal labyrinth of books, and the iconography of eternal return. To enter the worlds in Ficciones is to enter the mind of Jorge Luis Borges, wherein lies Heaven, Hell, and everything in between. “Without Borges the modern Latin American novel simply would not exist" (Carlos Fuentes).