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Books: Life member of the gaucho club Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges, translated by Andrew Hurley Allen Lane/ Penguin Press, pounds 20, 565pp; Borges bewitched the world with his fables, but readers - and translators - should remember his roots, argues Jason Wilson
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To celebrate the centenary of Jorge Luis Borges (who was born in
Buenos Aires on the 24 August 1899), the Borges estate and Viking
Penguin have commissioned this new translation of his "fictions" from
Andrew Hurley. To have all Borges's stories and parables in one
hefty volume can only be a good thing, but why re-translate them?
These quirky intellectual teases caught on, remarkably, in the
1960s, first in the US and then Britain, in the wake of an earlier
French discovery. They form...
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