Ficciones is amongst the most impressive collection of short stories I have ever read, especially the first part which in isolation might actually be the best b

Ficciones is amongst the most impressive collection of short stories I have ever read, especially the first part which in isolation might actually be the best because everything in it is genuinely good. Nearly all the stories it contains could be the highlight of another collection and even the one I find the weakest, "The Approach to Al-Mu'tasim", is still very enjoyable. It's amusing. I was checking on Wikipedia to see the exact title of the stories I wanted to highlight and I realised they all have articles and nearly all of them have an "Influence" section, a fact I'm not surprised about.