Jorge Luis Borges
1) Ficciones
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Español
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The most popular collection of short stories by Argentine writer and poet Jorge Luis Borges, often considered the best introduction to his work.
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Grove Press
Pub. Date
c1967
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English
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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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Español
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"Poeta, ensayista y narrador, Borges es una de las figuras primordiales de la literatura universal. Ahora, por primera vez, se reunen en este volumen todos sus cuentos, uno de los legados mas influyentes y deslumbrantes de la literatura occidental. El universo borgiano, con sus espejos, laberintos, tigres, bibliotecas, gauchos, o mascaras, es ya uno de los paisajes fundamentales del siglo XX. En este libro se encuentran obras maestras como El jardín...
5) El aleph
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Español
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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...
6) Ficciones
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A.A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1993
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English
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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...
8) Labyrinths
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New Directions
Pub. Date
[1962]
Edition
[1st ed.
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English
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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...
19) Poesía completa
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Vintage Español
Pub. Date
2012.
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Southern Sotho
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Gathers the noted Argentine author's thirteen books of verse, from "Fervor de Buenos Aires," first published in 1923, to "Los conjurados," from the year before his death, which display such themes as books, memory, labyrinths, and mirrors.
20) The Aleph and other stories, 1933-1969: together with commentaries and an autobiographical essay
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E. P. Dutton
Pub. Date
c1970
Edition
1st ed.
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English