BORGES
edited by Daniel Martino
Destino Ediciones €60, 1,663 pages

Jorge Luis Borges’s works of fiction could be squeezed into a single volume, yet he remains one of the 20th century’s most revered writers. Cited as a key influence by authors such as Paul Auster, Salman Rushdie and Orhan Pamuk, his bookish and elliptical short stories, collected in titles such as Fictions and The Aleph, made him a beacon of postmodern narrative.