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Ficciones
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Jorge Luis Borges
By common consent, the Argentinian Jorge Luis Borges (18990-1986) is one of the greatest writers to have emerged from Latin America. His finest work is "Ficciones" (1944), a collection of brilliantly-crafted, essay-like short stories. This edition, updated from the original 1976 edition by the same authors, offers a comprehensive selection of ...
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Labyrinths; selected stories & other writings.
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Jorge Luis Borges
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".
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Collected Fictions
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Jorge Luis Borges
This is a collection of Borges's fiction, translated and gathered into a single volume. From his 1935 debut with "The Universal History of Iniquity", through the influential collections "Ficciones" and "The Aleph", to his final work from the 1980s, "Shakespeare Memory".
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Labyrinths
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Jorge Luis Borges, James E Irby (Editor), Donald A Yates (Editor)
A generous anthology of Borges's work, including short stories about such things as imaginary universes, mysterious parables, and Chestertonian detective puzzles.
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Aleph and Other Stories
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Jorge Luis Borges
Full of philosophical puzzles and supernatural surprises, these stories contain some of Borges' most fully realized human characters.
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Borges: Selected Non-Fictions: Volume 3
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Jorge Luis Borges, Eliot Weinberger (Translator), Esther Allen (Translator)
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.
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The book of sand
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Borges: A Life
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Edwin Williamson
Edwin Williamson's major new biography is the first in any language to encompass the entire span of Jorge Luis Borges's life and work. Drawing upon previously unknown or unavailable sources, it brings out the human side of Borges: his roots in Argentina, the evolution of his political ideas, his relations with family and friends; the conflicts, ...
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The Aleph and other stories, 1933-1969, together with commentaries and an autobiographical essay.
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The narrow act; Borges' art of allusion
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Ronald J. Christ
Now reintroduced with the addition of a Paris Review interview with the Argentine author, The Narrow Act was singled out by Borges as "the best, the most intelligent, and most carefully done" of the many books about his work -- "a remarkable piece of readable and meaningful scholarship". The New York Times called it "a model of literary criticism".
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With Borges
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Alberto Manguel
In 1964, a blind writer (and voracious reader) in his sixties approached a sixteen-year old bookstore clerk in Buenos Aires and asked if the latter would be interested in a part-time job reading aloud. The boy accepted, and did so for four years, bringing books by Kipling, Stevenson, Henry James and many others alive three or four times a week. ...
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Borges on Writing
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Norman Thomas Di Giovanni (Editor), Jorge Luis Borges, Daniel Halpern (Editor)
Borges On Writing In 1971, Jorge Luis Borges was invited to preside over a series of seminars on his writing at Columbia University. This book is a record of those seminars, which took the form of informal discussions between Borges, Norman Thomas di Giovanni--his editor and translator, Frank MacShane--then head of the writing program at Columbia, ...
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The Unimaginable Mathematics of Borges' Library of Babel
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William Goldbloom Bloch
"The Library of Babel" is arguably Jorge Luis Borges' best known story-memorialized along with Borges on an Argentine postage stamp. Now, in The Unimaginable Mathematics of Borges' Library of Babel, William Goldbloom Bloch takes readers on a fascinating tour of the mathematical ideas hidden within one of the classic works of modern literature. ...
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Seven Nights
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Jorge Luis Borges, Eliot Weinberger (Translator)
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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The Borges Reader
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Jorge Luis Borges, Emir R Monegal (Editor)
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Selected Poems
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Jorge Luis Borges, Alexander Coleman
When Viking published Borges's Collected Fictions last September, the book received nationwide acclaim. Richard Bernstein in The New York Times hailed the publication as "an event, and cause for celebration." The celebration continues this April with the next installment in Vikings projected three-volume set of the Collected Work: a new selection ...
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Borges in 90 Minutes
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Paul Strathern
Building on his enormously successful series of Philosophers in 90 Minutes, Paul Strathern now applies his witty and incisive prose to brief biographical studies of the world's great writers. He brings their lives and ideas to life in entertaining and accessible fashion. Far from being a novelty, each book is a highly refined appraisal of the ...
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Borges: Selected Poems: Volume 2
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Jorge Luis Borges, Alexander Coleman (Editor)
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."
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Fictions
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Jorge Luis Borges
'Nobody before Borges had ever attempted this strange and wonderful mixture of arcana, popular literature, national myth, the nature of time and classical themes. Now we can see it in all its intense and disturbing brilliance, certain that we will never see anything like it again' - Justin Cartwright, "Independent on Sunday".
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El Otro Borges: El Primer Borges
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Rafael Olea-Franco
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Everything and Nothing
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Jorge Luis Borges, John M Fein (Translator), James E Irby (Translator)
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The Cardinal Points of Borges
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Lowell Dunham
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The Lesson of the Master: On Borges and His Work
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Norman Thomas Di Giovanni
Borges -- Argentine poet, essayist, and short-story writer, whose tales of fantasy and dream-worlds are classics of the 20th-century world literature - was profoundly influenced by European culture, English literature, and thinkers such as Berkeley. Since his death, Borges has been inducted into the world literary canon through the efforts of a ...
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Selected Nonfictions: Volume 1
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Jorge Luis Borges, Eliot Weinberger (Abridged by), Andrew Hurley (Translator)
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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Jorge Luis Borges: A Writer on the Edge
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Beatriz Sarlo
Jorge Luis Borges is generally acknowledged to be one of the 20th century's most significant writers. Yet in all the critical debates on his work, the fact that he is an Argentine writer is rarely discussed, as if his world reputation had somehow cleansed him of nationality. Sarlo argues that these "universalist" readings leave aside vital aspects ...
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