Borges

Jorge Luis Borges — Argentine writer who is one of the most influential figures in 20th century literature — author of Labyrinths, Ficciones, and The Aleph — whose short stories created a literary genre of philosophical fantasy where libraries, mirrors, labyrinths, and dreams explore the nature of infinity, time, and identity.

Created the philosophical short story as a literary form — Borges's stories are simultaneously entertainment, metaphysics, and bibliography, exploring what happens when you take an abstract idea (an infinite library, a map the size of the territory, the garden of forking paths) to its logical extreme; he single-handedly created what became magical realism and postmodern fiction.