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As a young man he and a group of friends interested in avant-garde poetry initiated a literary movement known as Ultraismo and began publishing the journal Proa. Despite his great accomplishments as a poet, however, his international reputation rests on his short stories. In his first collection, A Universal History of Infamy, he reworked old plots and developed some of the main features of his concise style. In Dreamtigers and The Book of Imaginary Beings he further developed the terseness of his prose. In 1961, at the invitation of the University of Texas, he lectured on Argentine literature, and commented on his collection El Aleph. FTP name this great man of letters most well known for his collection Ficciones.
As a young man he and a group of friends interested in avant-garde poetry initiated a literary movement known as Ultraismo and began publishing the journal Proa.