βWithout Borges the modern Latin American novel simply would not exist.β βCarlos Fuentes
"The seven stories collected under the title El jardΓn de senderos que se bifurcan [are] the most revoutionary book ever published in Argentia, possibly in Spanish." -Jason Wilson
βIn resounding the note of the marvelous last struck in English by Wells and Chesterson, in permitting infinity to enter and distort his imagination, [Borges] has lifted fiction away from the flat earth where most of our novels and short stories still take place.β βJohn Updike
βBorges is the most important Spanish-language writer since Cervantes.β βMario Vargas Llosa
βThese brief ficciones have to be read one at a time, and slowly; then they throb with uncanny and haunting powerβ β The Atlantic Monthly
β[Borges] engages the heart as well as the intelligence; his genius strikes, undismayed as Theseus, through the labyrinths of our life and time to the accomplishment of new, inspiring and stunningly beautiful work.β βJohn Barth
βOne of the finest, subtlest, and least appreciated of comediansβ¦[Borges is] a central fact of Western culture.β β The Washington Post Book World
βBorgesβs composed, carefully wrought, gnarled style is at once the means of his art and its objectβhis way of ordering and giving meaning to the bizarre and terrifying world he creates: it is a brilliant, burnished instrument, and it is quite adequate to the extreme demands his baroque imagination makes of it . . . . Absolutely and most vividly original.β
The seven pieces in The Garden of Forking Paths demonstrate the gargantuan powers of imagination, intelligence, and style of one of the greatest writers of this or any other century. Borges sends us on a journey into a compelling, bizarre, and profoundly resonant realm; we enter the surreal and literal labyrinth of books, and the iconography of eternal return. These ficciones offer the uninitiated a passageway into the whirlwind of Borges's genius and mirror the precision and potency of his intellect and inventiveness, his piercing irony, his skepticism, and his obsession with fantasy. To enter the worlds in the Garden of Forking Paths is to enter the mind of Jorge Luis Borges, wherein lies Heaven, Hell, and everything in between.