Much of Borges's work can be understood as prefiguring Magic Realism, and in terms of Fantastika in general – he praised very highly the writer generally thought to have initiated the Argentinian fantastic, Leopoldo Lugones, commemorating him in Leopoldo Lugones ( 1955 chap) – though unlike Lugones he cannot be understood as a writer of sf. Beyond Latin America, he is most influential for his stories, all of which have been conveniently assembled as Collected Fictions (coll trans Andrew Hurley 1998), which includes work from the 1930s until 1980 or later, though almost all of his most famous stories were published in the 1940s his first appearance in English was "El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan" (1942 trans Anthony Boucher August 1948 Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine as "The Garden of Forking Paths") (for further comments see variously below). (1899-1986) Argentine poet, essayist, librarian and short-story author, a central figure of Latin American literature for the sixty years of his active career, which he pursued solely in Argentina, though he was partly raised in Switzerland and took his university degree there his influence extended through poetry very numerous reviews and seminal essays, which covered almost all of Western literature as well as his fiction.
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