Jorge Luis Borges
1) Ficciones
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The seventeen pieces in Ficciones 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 fearful sphere of Pascal's abyss, the surreal and literal labyrinth of books, and the iconography of eternal return. More playful and approachable than the fictions themselves are Borges's...
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After almost a half a century of scrupulous devotion to his art, Jorge Luis Borges personally compiled this anthology of his work-short stories, essays, poems, and brief mordant "sketches," which, in Borges's hands, take on the dimensions of a genre unique in modern letters.
In this anthology, the author has put together those pieces on which he would like his reputation to rest; they are not arranged chronologically, but with an eye to their "sympathies...
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Este es otro volumen de la exitosa Colección Mejores Cuentos, una selección de obras maestras de autores de diversas nacionalidades y con temáticas muy variadas, pero que comparten una cualidad literaria enorme y posiblemente la más importante: brindar placer al lector. En "Los Mejores Cuentos LatinoAmericanos", al igual que en otras ediciones de la Colección de Mejores Cuentos, descubrirás una selección representativa de la vasta obra de cuentistas...
4) Labyrinths
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Now, new in audio and completely unabridged, the collection that made Borges a household name in the English-speaking world. The groundbreaking trans-genre work of Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) has been insinuating itself into the structure, stance, and very breath of world literature for well over half a century. Multi-layered, self-referential, elusive, and allusive writing is now frequently labeled Borgesian. Umberto Eco's international...
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Real Academia Española
Pub. Date
c2017.
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The fundamental works of the master of contemporary fiction. This volume includes the unabridged texts of Ficciones and El Aleph, two of his most representative narrative works, as well as a selection of his poems and essays. A beautiful, pure, and original work, written in a bare style but with the precision of a scalpel, and with great evocative power and symbolic weight.
La obra fundamental del maestro de la ficci?n contempor?nea. El presente...
6) Ficciones
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Vintage Español, una división de Random House, Inc
Pub. Date
2012.
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First published in 1945, his "Ficciones" compressed several centuries' worth of philosophy and poetry into 17 tiny, unclassifiable pieces of prose. Borges offered up diabolical tigers, imaginary encyclopedias, ontological detective stories, and scholarly commentaries on nonexistent books, and in the process exploded all previous notions of genre.
El libro se divide en dos secciones llamadas El jard?n de senderos que se bifurcan y Artificios. A pesar...
7) El aleph
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Vintage Español
Pub. Date
2012
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As in many of Borges' short stories, the protagonist is a fictionalized version of the author. At the beginning of the story, he is mourning the recent death of a woman whom he loved, named Beatriz Viterbo, and resolves to stop by the house of her family to pay his respects. Over time, he comes to know her first cousin, Carlos Argentino Daneri, a mediocre poet with a vastly exaggerated view of his own talent who has made it his lifelong quest to write...
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Vintage Español, una división de Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2019.
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Jorge Luis Borges has been called the greatest Spanish-language writer of our century. Now for the first time in English, all of Borges' dazzling fictions are gathered into a single volume, brilliantly translated by Andrew Hurley. From his 1935 debut with The Universal History of Iniquity, through his immensely influential collections Ficciones and The Aleph, these enigmatic, elaborate, imaginative inventions display Borges' talent for turning fiction...