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Jorge Luis Borges
1) Ficciones
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 166
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The works of an Argentinian writer who took the detective story and turned it into metaphysics. They range from the 1935 A Universal History of Iniquity, a series of biographies of reprehensible evildoers, to the surrealistic August 25, 1983 in which Borges meets himself as an old man.
5) Dreamtigers
Author
Series
Publisher
University of Texas Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
95 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Poems, stories, and personal reflections reveal the interwoven existence of imagination and reality in the mind of the South American writer.
14) El aleph
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
Primera edición Vintage Español.
Physical Desc
213 pages ; 20 cm
Language
Español
Description
Originalmente publicada en 1949, esta coleccion reune dieciocho relatos entre los que se encuentra algunos de los mas admirados cuentos de la literatura: "El Aleph," la clasica historia de una resplandeciente esfera en la que confluyen de un modo asombroso todos los tiempos y todos los espacios en el universo; "El Zahir," una fascinante reflexion sobre la obsesion, Borges narra la historia de un objeto que inspira la fascinacion inmediata de todos...
18) Seven nights
Author
Publisher
New Directions Pub. Corp
Pub. Date
1984
Physical Desc
121 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
The seven lectures which make up this volume were delivered by Borges in Buenos Aires at the Teatro Coliseo, at intervals between June and August 1977. In an Epilogue to the first Spanish edition of the book, published in Mexico in 1980, Roy Bartholomew tells how the lectures were widely taped, appeared later as pirated records, and were widely in a cut and mangled form, in the literary supplement of a Buenos Aires newspaper.
Author
Series
Charles Eliot Norton lectures volume 1967-1968
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
154 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
