Finzioni

The slender volume of 146 pages challenged our imagination as teenagers in love with the visions of Jim Morrison and William Blake, offering a visionary ironically erudite, meticulous to the point of perversity, and vague enough to make us want to decipher it like a foreign language. Now 'Finzions' returns in a new and splendid Italian version expanded by the three stories that Borges added. And as we retrace the Argentine's forked paths, rereading some memorable attacks, we realize not only that their quietly enchanting power is unchanged, but somehow it has branched out, like a story by Borges.

What happened? Only that almost all literature of the last forty years, from Calvino to Pynchon to Molina and countless others, has confronted or clashed with the dreamlike and slightly delirious universe that emerged from 'Finzions.' (Giuseppe Montesano).