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For the first time in English,all of Jorge Luis Borges's fictions collected in a single …

Reading this, I kept being reminded of Piranesi by Susanna Clarke. Lo and behold, not only was Susanna Clark partly inspired by some of the short stories in this collection, especially "The Library of Babel", but both she and Borges were inspired by the works of one Giovanni Battista Piranesi, an artist of twisting impossible labyrinths.