About this title: 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 ...
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Edition: F First Paperback Edition Used
Binding: S Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Group USA, New York
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780140286809ISBN:0140286802
Description: Very Good+ 8vo-over 7�"-9�" tall A VG+ copy. Light wear. Soiling to page edges. read more
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Penguin USA, E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780140286809ISBN:0140286802
Description: Near Fine. 5.5 x 8 trade paperback book. White and black lettering on the brown and blue spine and cover. Now, for the first time in English, all Borges' dazzling fictions are collected in a single volume. 565 pages. Some underlining and highlighting. Slight edgewear. Tight binding. Near Fine condition. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Date Published: 1999-09-01
ISBN-13:9780140286809ISBN:0140286802
Description: NEW. Softcover. From an inventory that is 100% brand-new, 100% direct from the publishers' distribution channel. We carry NO pre-owned, NO remaindered. We pack in CARDBOARD to ensure the pristine quality is maintained. (Bubble-wrap alone is NOT sufficient to protect from USPS equipment. ) Guaranteed brand-NEW, protected with CARDBOARD, your satisfaction is guaranteed. BKLUVID: 9780140286809. read more
Edition: Complete and ed.
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780140286809ISBN:0140286802
Description: New. No dust jacket as issued. Brand New! Support Independent Pacific Northwest Booksellers! Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 565 p. Audience: General/trade. Jorge Luis Borges has been called the greatest Spanish-language writer of our century. Now for the first time in English, all of Borges' dazzling fictions are gathered into a single volume, brilliantly translated by Andrew Hurley. From his 1935 debut with The Universal History of Iniquity, through his immensely influential collections ... read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780140286809ISBN:0140286802
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Viking Adult
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780670849703ISBN:0670849707
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Edition: Third Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Viking Adult
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780670849703ISBN:0670849707
Description: Fine with no dust jacket. 0670849707. Fine hardback, lacking dust jacket. Remainder mark on bottom text edge.; 1.78 x 9.53 x 6.64 Inches; 576 pages. read more
Description: Very good; Collectible. 1998 Viking hard cover-1st edition 2nd printing-some staining inside dust jacket and bottom of cover and at page edge-note inside cover-otherwise dust jacket and cover fine binding like new contents clean-enjoy. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Allen Lane / The Penguin Press, London, England
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780713992694ISBN:0713992697
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. Ex-Library. Dust Jacket Protected with New Plastic Covering. 565 pages. A new translation by Andrew Hurley. A few library stamps. read more
Edition: First Edition.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: VIKING., NY
Date Published: 1998
Description: Dust Jacket Included. REVIEW COPY. (Printed publisher's press release laid-in) Close to fine in dj. (Couple of extremely mild bumps to tips of boards. No remainder marks! ) read more
"This is it, ladies and gentlemen, jury and audience. This is the real thing, the show stopper, the work of fertile imagination and fantastic passion. Borges, the man, the one, the only, who could not appreciate his weightless, multifaceted stories that reveal in serpentine grace the immensity of an idea, his ever-familiar style that ranges from the baroque to the colloquial, the comforting to the shocking. This volume has it all, and you couldn't go wrong reading a few stories. My favorites, or at least a selection thereof, are Toenails, Dreamtigers, The Garden of Forking Paths, The Book of Sand, Mutations, and Everything and Nothing. But that's just my advice."
"I don't really know what to say about this collection of short stories.
I did not read all of them, only "Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius," "Funes, The Memory," and "The Aleph." I think what most impressed me about Borges' writing style was his ability to create specific, succinct, and gripping worlds/settings in such short stories with powerful sentences. I could write a two-page analysis of the first sentence in "Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertiu."
I gave him a three as opposed to a four because the stories aren't as engaging as his writing. I think it is a combination of his language and voice that carries you to the end, not necessarily what's happening to the characters on the page."
"I liked this book overall, with the exception of the collection titled Garden Of Forking Paths, which was so pretentious that if I hadn't already been familiar with some of his other work, I might have put down the book right there. As it is, this is a great collection for Borges' fans and completists, but for those new to his work, I would strongly recommend getting some familiarity with the gaucho ballad Martin Fierro, because he references it a lot. Otherwise, his work stands strong on its own, and fantasy writers of all stripes (and particularly those who write urban fantasy) owe a large debt of gratitude to this author, who folded the fantastic into both philosophical treatises and everyday observances, thereby showing "serious" readers that there is much to discover in fantasy writing.
Also, if you're getting into this book, feel free to skip the annotations. They disrupt the flow of the stories and don't really lend much more information than the casual reader really needs to know; Borges is a good enough author that you don't need certain things spelled out about the geography of his settings, or who exactly in South American Who's Who he's referring to in certain parts."
Borges is brilliant, but most of his stories just don't appeal to me. Most are too much in the blood and gore category or the gunslinger category or are just boring and seem very self-indulgent ("Shakespeare's Memory," both of the stories where younger and older versions of himself meet). A few stories I really liked, but that was it. Still, now I know what he's all about.
9/14/2009
I'm about 2/3 through. I read another story this morning ("The Gospel According to Mark"). So precisely and beautifully written, but oh so disturbing. My favorite story so far is "The Duel," which makes sense given that Borges introduces the pieces as a perfect Henry James scenario and I think he's right. It's about two women who are friends and unacknowledged (to each other) rivals, as they have a protracted, unspoken, possible not quite consciously recognized struggle to win prominence as painters in a certain niche of the art world.
------ This stories are incredibly challenging. History of Inequities is very disturbing, so much so that I had to stop reading it at night. Some of the stories I don't get at all--why the handful of translations from 1001 Arabian Nights? I couldn't see the thread. I'm almost through Ficciones now, and am enjoying that much more. I like the labrynthian aspect to these stories as opposed to the brutality and violence of Inequities."
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