The Book of Fantasy Author:Jorge Luis Borges, Silvina Ocampo, Adolfo Bioy Casares, Editors A fantasy anthology of 81 stories, story fragments, and anecdotes. This is a reprint of the first English-language edition, with an introduction by Ursula K. Le Guin, and contains the text of the second revised edition (Argentina 1976). Originally conceived of by its Argentinian editors in 1937, and now published in English for the first time, t... more »his unusual and provocative volume is an omnibus collection. In addition to stories by Ballard, Poe, Saki, Max Beerbohm, Ray Bradbury, May Sinclair, de Maupassant and Julio Cortazar, there are shorter pieces, anecdotes, folkloric fragments, dreamlike moments. Most of the 81 selections are only a paragraph or two long, giving us brief passage into magical visions of the world culled from the work of an international array of authors of the past three centuries, including less well-known authors such as Santiago Dabove, Edwin Morgan and Niu Chiao. The keynote tale may well be Borges's own "Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" in which an imaginary world, conjured up by manufactured documentation, ends up eroding our reality: reality is malleable, and imagination necessarily subverts and alters it.« less