“Every man should be capable of all ideas, and I believe that in the future he will be.”

Jorge Luis Borges is a monumental inscription in the world of philosophical fiction. His short stories with his labyrinthine themes and language have been explored and analyzed to the point that he has been named one of the pioneers of post-modernist fiction. His fabulistic stories with strange fictional realms and complex social systems and unusual metaphors had a significant influence on the Latin American magical realism movement.

Ficciones is a collection of short stories, and is considered to be his most popular anthology. Some of his best known and most influential works are in this collection. The book is divided into two parts: the first part, The Garden of Forking Paths, contains eight stories and the second part, Artifices, contains nine. The stories explore many themes of existentialism, creationist philosophy, fantastical realms and universes governed by strange theological and sociological systems, satirical reviews of fictional works and many more such unusual works of fiction. Highly recommended if you're into philosophical fiction.