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.

• Part One: The Garden of Forking Paths
  • Prologue
  • Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius
  • The Approach to Al-Mu'tasim
  • Pierre Menard, Author of Don Quixote
  • The Circular Ruins
  • The Babylon Lottery
  • An Examination of the Work of Herbert Quinn
  • The Library of Babel
  • The Garden of Forking Paths
• Part Two: Artifices
  • Prologue
  • Funes the Memorious
  • The Form of the Sword
  • Theme of the Traitor and Hero
  • Death and the Compass
  • The Secret Miracle
  • Three Versions of Judas
  • The End
  • The Sect of the Phoenix
  • The South