Comentarios de Ficciones
“Sin Borges, la novela moderna latinoamericana simplemente no existiría.”
Carlos Fuentes
“Borges es el escritor más importante de la literatura en español desde Cervantes.”
Mario Vargas Llosa
“Recuerdo que tenía 22 o 23 años cuando se publicó por primera vez Ficciones. Se habían hecho unas 500 copias, prácticamente nadie se había dado cuenta. Entonces vino un poeta italiano (¿Sergio Sogni?), que me dijo: “Lea este libro. Es de un argentino que nadie conoce aquí”. Me enloqueció. Me pasaba noches y noches leyéndoselo a mis amigos. Me reconocí de inmediato en Borges. Fue un amor a primera vista.”
Umberto Eco
“Borges sigue siendo el mayor escritor que tuvo la Argentina; su escritura cambió definitivamente el rostro de la literatura moderna.”
Clarín
“What are we to make of him? The economy of his prose, the tact of his imagery, the courage of his thought are there to be admired and emulated. In resounding the note of the marvelous last struck in English by Wells and Chesterton, in permitting infinity to enter and distort his imagination, he has lifted fiction away from the flat earth where most of our novels and short stories still take place.”
John Updike
“[Borges] more than anyone renovated the language of fiction and thus opened the way to a remarkable generation of Spanish-American novelists. Gabriel García Márquez, Carlos Fuentes, José Donoso, and Mario Vargas Llosa have all acknowledged a debt to him.”
J.M. Coetzee
“These brief Ficciones have to be read one at a time, and slowly; then they throb with uncanny and haunting power. A strange and formidable writer, Sr. Borges is also a magisterial stylist – even in translation.”
Atlantic Monthly
“Beneath Borges’s paradoxical twists and inverted spells there is the deeper, ineffably human magic of all great literature.”
Los Angeles Times
“[Borges] engages the heart as well as the intelligence.”
John Barth