Ficciones es una obra imprescindible en la literatura contemporánea que merece su lugar destacado en cualquier canon de la literatura universal. Aquí se reúnen dos libros de Borges: E
“One of the literary giants of science fiction.”--The Denver Post“Wolfe is a sophisticated stylist, and has more in common with writers such as Jorge Luis Borges than almost a
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
By the end of the twentieth century, Argentina’s complex identity-tango and chimichurri, Eva Per￠n and the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, the Falklands and the Dirty War, Jorge Luis Borges and M
It is well known that Jorge Luis Borges was a translator, but this has been considered a curious minor aspect of his literary achievement. Few have been aware of the number of texts he translated, the
A renowned critic, biographer, and Shakespeare scholar, Jonathan Bate provides in this Very Short Introduction a lively and engaging overview of the literature that Jorge Luis Borges called "the riche
It will come as a surprise to some readers that the greater part of Jorge Luis Borges's extraordinary writing was not in the genres of fiction or poetry, but in the various forms of non-fiction prose.
In 1949, Jorge Luis Borges characterized the art of Alejandro Xul Solar (1887--1963) as both ?monumental and delicate at the same time, like a blend of invention and rigor, of ambition and modesty.” T
Features five stories about danger on the high seas, an ungracious teacher of etiquette and an encyclopaedia of an unknown planet. This book includes "The Widow Ching-Pirate", "Monk Eastman", "Purveyo
Borges' first collection of stories (1935). In his writing, Borges always combined high seriousness with a wicked sense of fun. Here he reveals his delight in re-creating (or making up) colorful stori
Sixty-five international artists talk to a great art critic. What is art? What is its function? What is the relationship between art and reality? These are just some of the questions posed to 65 of th
A catalogue inspired by the tradition of Latin American literature and authors such as Jorge Amado, Jorge Luis Borges, Pablo Neruda, and Gabriel Garcia Marquez. This book explores the unique storytell
Filled with humor and insight, a vast array of thought-provoking reflections on literature and the art of writing discusses literary masterpieces from such authors as Samuel Beckett, Jorge Luis Borges
From 1933 to 1934, Jorge Luis Borges, the master of fiction whose work would change the literary world, published a series of "falsifications and distortions" in the Buenos Aires newspaper Critica. T
A story by Nobel Prize-winning writer Jose Saramago, gorgeously illustrated in woodcuts by one of Brazil's most famous artists.When a lizard appears in the neighborhood of Chiado, in Lisbon, it surpri
A Companion to Latin American Literature and Culture examines the cultural and historical contexts behind the work of major Latin American writers such as Jorge Luis Borges, Octavio Paz, and Gabriel G
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The seventeen pieces in Ficciones demonstrate the whirlwind of Borges’s genius and mirror the precision and potency of his intellect and inventiveness, his piercing irony, his skepticism, and his obse
