Fictions Fictions is a collection of short stories which is generally considered to be Borges' finest and most important work of fiction. It wasn't the first time he had used this title. It had previously cropped up in 1936, in a pamphlet celebrating the four hundredth anniversary of the founding of Buenos Aires.
Fictions is composed of two sections.
These stories capture the realms of the imagination, as they explore the nature of reality and fantasy - and seek to determine the impact of language on literature, philosophy and theology. Borges was said to be influenced by writers Lewis Carroll, Robert Louis Stevenson and Miguel Cervantes. The second section of stories to make up Fiction is called Artifacts . These stories are generally shorter and less elaborate, but nevertheless make an impressive collection. Published by Sur, in Buenos Aires, in December 1944, Fictions went down much better than El Jardin .