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DEL LABERINTO SE SALE LEYENDO

«Uno no es lo que es por lo que escribe, sino por lo que ha leído».

Borges

«[En un periodo de bloqueo creativo] únicamente podía leer los cuentos de Borges».

Han Kang

«El centro del canon de la literatura latinoamericana es Borges, y si me apuran, de la literatura en lengua española. [...] Cervantes, Quevedo, así de bestia es el salto».

Roberto Bolaño

Los cuentos de Jorge Luis Borges constituyen uno de los capítulos fundamentales de la literatura del siglo porque son un modo de exploración intelectual y estética en el que conviven el rigor de la construcción y la invención metafísica, la erudición y el enigma, el pensamiento y la fábula. Este volumen reúne, en orden cronológico, todos los libros de cuentos de Borges. El conjunto traza el mapa completo de una obra que redefinió las fronteras entre la filosofía y la ficción. Cada relato es un ejercicio de pensamiento narrativo, un experimento con las posibilidades del tiempo, del destino y del lenguaje. Borges concibió la literatura como un universo —hecho de bibliotecas infinitas, laberintos, tigres, sueños y revelaciones— que interroga la realidad con la misma lucidez con que la inventa. En estas páginas se condensa la plenitud de su la precisión de la palabra, el vértigo de la idea y la certeza de que toda imaginación es también una forma de conocimiento.

Sobre el autor se ha

«Mis lecturas de los cuentos y de los ensayos de Borges me mostraron un lenguaje del que yo no tenía idea».
Julio Córtazar
«Borges era en una palabra, inventaba todo, inventaba la realidad».
Umberto Eco
«[En un período de bloqueo creativo] únicamente podía leer los cuentos de Borges».
Han Kang
«Cuando yo leí a Borges, que es esencialmente ensayista, intelectual y un gran cuentista, pensé en liberarme de escribir como Balzac o Dickens».
Orhan Pamuk
«Con autores como Borges te diviertes, juegas, no tienes las peleas ni la necesidad de responderles y enfrentarles».
Samantha Schweblin
«Asombro, placer, ternura, admiración. Los cuentos de Borges provocan toda clase de emociones. No son sólo cerebrales, como alguna gente piensa, hay mucho sentimiento en ellos. [...] Son para leer y en cada relectura encontrar algo nuevo».
Pilar Quintana

562 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 22, 2026

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Jorge Luis Borges

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Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator regarded as a key figure in Spanish-language and international literature. His best-known works, Ficciones (transl. Fictions) and El Aleph (transl. The Aleph), published in the 1940s, are collections of short stories exploring motifs such as dreams, labyrinths, chance, infinity, archives, mirrors, fictional writers and mythology. Borges's works have contributed to philosophical literature and the fantasy genre, and have had a major influence on the magic realist movement in 20th century Latin American literature.
Born in Buenos Aires, Borges later moved with his family to Switzerland in 1914, where he studied at the Collège de Genève. The family travelled widely in Europe, including Spain. On his return to Argentina in 1921, Borges began publishing his poems and essays in surrealist literary journals. He also worked as a librarian and public lecturer. In 1955, he was appointed director of the National Public Library and professor of English Literature at the University of Buenos Aires. He became completely blind by the age of 55. Scholars have suggested that his progressive blindness helped him to create innovative literary symbols through imagination. By the 1960s, his work was translated and published widely in the United States and Europe. Borges himself was fluent in several languages.
In 1961, he came to international attention when he received the first Formentor Prize, which he shared with Samuel Beckett. In 1971, he won the Jerusalem Prize. His international reputation was consolidated in the 1960s, aided by the growing number of English translations, the Latin American Boom, and by the success of Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude. He dedicated his final work, The Conspirators, to the city of Geneva, Switzerland. Writer and essayist J.M. Coetzee said of him: "He, more than anyone, renovated the language of fiction and thus opened the way to a remarkable generation of Spanish-American novelists."

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