Translated with an Afterword by Andrew Hurley 'His stories - concise, playful, brimming with ideas - are among the century's supreme literary achievements'INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY While Borges remained f
“A veces creo que los buenos lectores son cisnes aun mas tenebrosos y singulares que los buenos autores”. —Jorge Luis BorgesEn su primer libro de ficcion, Borges trabaja con biografias de ladrones y r
“Uno de los artistas contemporaneos mas memorables… La deuda que tenemos contraida con el quienes escribimos en espanol es enorme”. —Mario Vargas LlosaConsiderado uno de los escritores mas influyentes
你想知道叔本華對我的幫助嗎？我只有這樣來回答你，他使我有勇氣並自由地面對人生，因為我的腳發現了結實的地盤。────尼采無論經過多少世紀，這本書總是在書架上以備被取下一千次、一萬次。人生是短促的，而真理的影響是深遠的，它的生命是悠久的。讓我們談真理吧。這是叔本華獻給全人類的禮物，它的存在是全人類的幸福。二十八歲那年，叔本華寫下了哲學的一切細節，其後用盡漫長一生，解釋或補充這部偉大作品。對於長期被人們忽視的歲月，他表示：如果不是我配不上這個時代，那就是這個時代配不上我。如今──他的名字已成為了偉大哲學的代名詞。尼采、托爾斯泰、卡夫卡、愛因斯坦、華格納、佛洛伊德……他們全部都是叔本華的仰慕者 這位被稱為極悲觀的哲學家，以他的唯意志論和憂傷語調征服了無數後輩，就此點亮了人類思想的光輝歲月。各界推薦尼采(Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche)：「就想像父親教導兒子好了，那種話語不拘小節、誠實坦白而不失幽默，聽者洗耳恭聽，心中深懷愛意……只要一聽到他的聲音，馬上就會感受到他的健康與力量，我們好像到了一處森林高地──在這裡，我們深深地呼吸著新鮮的空氣，整個人感覺耳目一新，重又充滿生機。」愛因斯坦(Albert Einstein)：「叔本華說：『人能夠做他想做的，但不能要他所想要的。』這句話從我青年時代起，就對我是一個非常真實的啟示；在自己和別人生活面臨困難的時候，它總是使我得到安慰，並且永遠是寬容的源泉。」托爾斯泰(Leo Tolstoy)：「對叔本華著作的心醉神迷和連續不斷的精神愉悅，這種陶醉、愉快是我不曾體驗過的……我一邊讀著叔本華的書，一邊就在想：這個人的名字怎麼可能還不為人所知呢，這簡直是讓人無法想像的事情。」波赫士(Jorge Luis Borges)：「倘若要我選出唯一喜歡的哲學家，我一定選擇他；倘若宇宙之謎可以用語言來概括，我認為那種語言就存在叔本華的著作中。」華格納(Wilhelm Richard Wagner)：「我現在僅僅在研究一個人的著作，他像上天的饋贈一樣降臨到我的孤獨之中。他叫叔本華，是康德以來最偉大的哲學家。」
The face of Borges most widely known is that of the blind, patrician man of letters in whose writings emotion is subjected to the play of ideas. Yet Borges, born in Buenos Aires in 1899, did not becom
Jorge Luis Borges, one of the indisputably great writers of the twentieth century, was born in Buenos Aires in 1899. Never having been awarded the Nobel Prize, which his readers worldwide believed he
By common consent, the Argentinian Jorge Luis Borge (1899-1986) is one of the greatest writers to have emerged from Latin America. His finest work is Ficciones (Fictions, 1944), a collection of essay
Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) is Argentina's most celebrated author. This volume brings together for the first time the numerous contexts in which he lived and worked; from the history of the Borges family and that of modern Argentina, through two world wars, to events including the Cuban Revolution, military dictatorship, and the Falklands War. Borges' distinctive responses to the Western tradition, Cervantes and Shakespeare, Kafka, and the European avant garde are explored, along with his appraisals of Sarmiento, gauchesque literature and other strands of the Argentine cultural tradition. Borges' polemical stance on Catholic integralism in early twentieth-century Argentina is accounted for, whilst chapters on Buddhism, Judaism and landmarks of Persian literature illustrate Borges's engagement with the East. Finally, his legacy is visible in the literatures of the Americas, in European countries such as Italy and Portugal, and in the novels of J. M. Coetzee, representing the Global So
Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) is Argentina's most celebrated author. This volume brings together for the first time the numerous contexts in which he lived and worked; from the history of the Borges family and that of modern Argentina, through two world wars, to events including the Cuban Revolution, military dictatorship, and the Falklands War. Borges' distinctive responses to the Western tradition, Cervantes and Shakespeare, Kafka, and the European avant garde are explored, along with his appraisals of Sarmiento, gauchesque literature and other strands of the Argentine cultural tradition. Borges' polemical stance on Catholic integralism in early twentieth-century Argentina is accounted for, whilst chapters on Buddhism, Judaism and landmarks of Persian literature illustrate Borges's engagement with the East. Finally, his legacy is visible in the literatures of the Americas, in European countries such as Italy and Portugal, and in the novels of J. M. Coetzee, representing the Global So
These wide-ranging conversations have an exceptionally open and intimate tone, giving us a personal glimpse of one of the most fascinating figures in contemporary world literature.Interviewer Fernando
This book analyzes Borges’s works through a political rather than a literary or cultural lens. It explores how Borges’s politically inspired works make the case for individual liberty against politica
