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'Summer was drawing to a close, and I realized that the book was monstrous.' Fantastical tales of mazes, puzzles, lost labyrinths and bookish mysteries, from the unique imagination of a literary magician. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebratin
Eine repräsentative Auswahl kürzerer und sprachlich nicht zu schwieriger Erzählungen aus dem Gesamtwerk des großen Argentiniers: La intrusa - Las ruinas circulares - La biblioteca de Babel - El sur - El milagro secreto - El libro de arena - El otro - La c
Borges' stories have a deceptively simple, almost laconic style. In maddeningly ingenious stories that play with the very form of the short story, Borges returns again and again to his themes: dreams, labyrinths, mirrors, infinite libraries, the manip
The most popular anthology of Jorge Luis Borges's short stories, Fictions is a wildly original and influential collection of fantastic tales, translated from the Spanish with an afterword by Andrew Hurley in Penguin Modern Classics. Jorge Luis Borges&
Jorge Luis Borges's Labyrinths is a collection of short stories and essays showcasing one of Latin America's most influential and imaginative writers. This Penguin Modern Classics edition is edited by Donald A. Yates and James E. Irby, with an int
Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith Magical books, infinite libraries, parallel worlds, mazes, labyrinths
One of the most remarkable artists of our age.' MARIO VARGAS LLOSA THE BOOK OF SAND was the last of Borges' major collections to be published. The stories are, in his words, 'variations on favourite themes... combining a plain and at times alm
The incomparable Borges delivered these seven lectures in Buenos Aires in 1977; attendees were treated to Borges' erudition on the following topics: Dante's The Divine Comedy, Nightmares, Thousand and One Dreams, Buddhism, Poetry, The Kabbalah, an
Dreamtigers has been heralded as one of the literary masterpieces of the twentieth century by Mortimer J. Adler, editor of Great Books of the Western World . It has been acknowledged by its author as his most personal work. Composed of poems, parables, an
These brief Ficciones have to be read one at a time, and slowly; then they throb with uncanny and haunting power. The Atlantic Monthly The seventeen pieces in Ficciones demonstrate the gargantuan powers of imagination, intelligence, and style of one of t
The acclaimed translation of Borges's valedictory stories, in its first stand-alone edition Jorge Luis Borges has been called the greatest Spanish-language writer of the twentieth century. Now Borges's remarkable last major story collection, The B
A master class in the art of writing by one of its most distinguished and innovative practitioners Delve into the labyrinth of Jorge Luis Borges's thoughts on the theory and practice of literature, and learn from one of the most influential writers of
" A veces creo que los buenos lectores son cisnes aun m s tenebrosos y singulares que los buenos autores ". --Jorge Luis Borges En su primer libro de ficci n, Borges trabaja con biograf as de ladrones y rufianes verdaderos; personajes traidores
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
FICTIONS is perhaps the single most mysterious and extraordinary collection of short stories written this century. Influenced by writers as disparate as Lewis Carroll, Stevenson and Cervantes, Borges is nethertheless a complete original who can turn dry l
Den verdensberømte argentinske forfatter Jorge Luis Borges elskede den italienske forfatter Dante og havde efter sigende altid hans store værk Den guddommelige komedie liggende på sit arbejdsbord. Det kom der igennem Borges liv en række betragtninger ud a
"Probablemente el mayor escritor que haya nacido en Latinoam?rica."--Roberto Bola?o "Pens? en un laberinto de laberintos, en un sinuoso laberinto creciente que abarcara el pasado y el porvenir y que implicara de alg?n modo los astros".
Though best known in the English speaking world for his short fictions and poems, Borges is revered in Latin America equally as an immensely prolific and beguiling writer of non-fiction prose. In THE TOTAL LIBRARY, more than 150 of Borges' most brilli
In a perfect pairing of talent, this volume blends twenty illustrations by Peter S?s with Jorge Luis Borges's 1957 compilation of 116 "strange creatures conceived through time and space by the human imagination," from dragons and centaurs to
"He intentado, no s con qu fortuna, la redacci n de cuentos directos. No me atrevo a afirmar que son sencillos; no hay en la tierra una sola p gina, una sola palabra, que lo sea, ya que todas postulan el universo, cuyo m s notorio atributo es la comp
This remarkable book by one of the great writers of the twentieth century includes essays on a proposed universal language, a justification of suicide, a refutation of time, the nature of dreams, and the intricacies of linguistic forms. Borges comments on
Through a twist of fate that the author of Labyrinths himself would have relished, these lost lectures given in English at Harvard in 1967-1968 by Jorge Luis Borges return to us now, a recovered tale of a life-long love affair with literature and the Engl
Jorge Luis Borges was one of those very rare creators who changed the face of an art form--in his case, the short story. His work has been paid the ultimate honor of being appropriated and imitated by innumerable writers on every continent of the world. T
The largest collection of poetry ever assembled in English by "the most important Spanish-language writer since Cervantes" (Mario Vargas Llosa) A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition with flaps and deckle-edged paper Though universally acclaimed for
For the first time in English, all the fiction by the writer who has been called "the greatest Spanish-language writer of our century" collected in a single volume A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition From Jorge Luis Borges's 1935 debut with Th
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism The first comprehensive selection in any language of the non-fiction--much of it appearing here in English for the first time--of "one of literature's most fertile and original minds&q