The seventeen pieces in Ficciones demonstrate the gargantuan powers of imagination, intelligence, and style of one of the greatest writers of this or any other century. 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. More playful and approachable than the fictions themselves are Borges's Prologues, brief elucidations that offer the uninitiated a passageway into 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. For to enter the worlds in Ficciones is to enter the mind of Jorge Luis Borges, wherein lie Heaven, Hell, and everything in between.

豪尔赫·路易斯·博尔赫斯（1899-1986），阿根廷诗人，小说家，翻译家。一九二三年出版第一部诗集，一九三五年出版第一部短篇小说集，奠定在阿根廷文坛的地位。曾任阿根廷国立图书馆馆长、布宜诺斯艾利斯大学哲学文学系教授。

重要作品有诗集《布宜诺斯艾利斯的激情》、《老虎的金黄》，短篇小说集《小径分岔的花园》、《阿莱夫》等。