"Fictions" is a collection of short stories, influenced by writers as disparate as Lewis Carroll, Stevenson and Cervantes. Borges turns dry logical puzzles into enchanting fables.
A generous anthology of Borges's work, including short stories about such things as imaginary universes, mysterious parables, and Chestertonian detective puzzles.
Jorge Luis Borges was a literary spellbinder whose tales of magic, mystery and murder are shot through with deep philosophical paradoxes. This collection brings together many of his stories, including the celebrated "Library of Babel".
"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, and stories, sketches and apocryphal quotations, "Dreamtigers" at first glance appears to be ...
Few readers will want, or be able to resist this modern bestiary. Here, you will find the familiar - Gryphons, Minotaurs and Unicorns - as well as the Monkey of the inkpot and other undeniably curious beasts. Borges' cunning and humourous commentary is sheer delight.
First published in 1927, this classic has long had a cult following because of its keenly observed and gritty rendering of old New York, and of the habitues of neighborhoods such as the Five Points, the Lower East Side, and the waterfront. Asbury writes of gangs which predated the rise of the mafia--gangs with colorful names such as the Bowery ...
Possessor of one of the 20th Century's most fecund--and intelligent--imaginations, Jorge Luis Borges wrote on virtually everything, and in almost every conceivable form, reflecting the encyclopedic knowledge he acquired through both a rigorous education and his career as a librarian. In honor of his centennial, this three-volume edition of his ...
This collection of 11 short stories includes "The Gospel According to Mark", "The Unworthy Friend", "The Duel", "The End of the Duel", "Rosendo's Tale", "The Intruder", "The Meeting", "Juan Mruana", "The Elder Lady", "Guayaquil" and "Doctor Brodie's Report".
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.
This unique volume presents a Borges almost entirely unknown to American readers: his extraordinary non-fiction prose. Borges' unlimited curiosity and almost superhuman erudition become, in his essays, reviews, lectures, and political and cultural notes.
First published in 1945, his "Ficciones" compressed several centuries' worth of philosophy and poetry into 17 tiny, unclassifiable pieces of prose. Borges offered up diabolical tigers, imaginary encyclopedias, ontological detective stories, and scholarly commentaries on nonexistent books, and in the process exploded all previous notions of genre.
Includes essays dealing with various concepts of time presented throughout history. Also included are several meditations on the profound unity of ideas as they are expressed and re-expressed in the written word.
Jorge Luis Borges retoma en este libro sus temas favoritos dandoles un imprevisto y deslumbrante planteo. En cada relato arriesga una nueva vision del universo fantastico. Quienes buscan al escritor brillante de los interminables juegos mentales se entusiasmaran con El Zahir, Los dos reyes y los dos laberintos y Los teologos. Quienes prefieren al ...
This unparalleled and long-overdue volume of poetry is by "the most important Spanish writer since Cervantes" (Mario Vargas Llosa). First serial to "New Yorker, Harper's, " the "New York Review of Books, " the "Los Angeles Book Review" and the "New Criterion."
Producto de la vasta cultura y la asombrosa erudicion de Jorge Luis Borges, este libro atractivo y peculiar es una especie de bestiario moderno en el que se recoge gran parte de los extranos seres que ha engendrado, a lo largo del tiempo y del espacio, la fantasia de los hombres. Por las paginas de El libro de los seres imaginarios desfilan ...
These essays were originally given as lectures in Buenos Aires by the blind Jorge Luis Borges, in 1977. He delivered them entirely from memory, including their copious quotations, and they were transcribed by others. Borges's topics include Dante, Buddhism, nightmares, and (the last lecture) blindness. This brief volume encapsulates everything ...
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All Around the Town: Murder, Scandal, Riot and Mayhem in Old New York
