Borges And His Fiction

Author : Gene H. Bell-Villada
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2000-02-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780292782938

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Borges and His Fiction by Gene H. Bell-Villada Pdf

The acclaimed author of García Márquez delivers “a compulsively readable account of the life and works of our greatest . . . writer of fantasy” (New York Daily News). Since its first publication in 1981, Borges and His Fiction has introduced the life and works of this Argentinian master-writer to an entire generation of students, high school and college teachers, and general readers. Responding to a steady demand for an updated edition, Gene H. Bell-Villada has significantly revised and expanded the book to incorporate new information that has become available since Borges’ death in 1986. In particular, he offers a more complete look at Borges and Peronism and Borges’ personal experiences of love and mysticism, as well as revised interpretations of some of Borges’ stories. As before, the book is divided into three sections that examine Borges’ life, his stories in Ficciones and El Aleph, and his place in world literature. “Of the scores of Borges studies by now published in English, Bell-Villada’s excellent book stands out as one of the freshest and most generally helpful . . . Lay readers and specialists alike will find his book a valuable and highly readable companion to Ficciones and El Aleph.” —Choice

Author : Jorge Luis Borges
Publisher : Dutton Books
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015035341034

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The Book of Sand by Jorge Luis Borges Pdf

Thirteen new stories by the celebrated writer, including two which he considers his greatest achievements to date, artfully blend elements from many literary geares.

Author : Norman Thomas di Giovanni
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780007524389

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Georgie and Elsa: Jorge Luis Borges and His Wife: The Untold Story by Norman Thomas di Giovanni Pdf

A biography of Borges, by his translator.

Author : Jorge Luis Borges
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1999-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780140286809

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Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges Pdf

For the first time in English, all the fiction by the writer who has been called “the greatest Spanish-language writer of our century” collected in a single volume “An event, and cause for celebration.”—The New York Times A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition with flaps and deckle-edged paper For some fifty years, in intriguing and ingenious fictions that reimagined the very form of the short story—from his 1935 debut with A Universal History of Iniquity through his immensely influential collections Ficciones and The Aleph, the enigmatic prose poems of The Maker, up to his final work in the 1980s, Shakespeare’s Memory—Jorge Luis Borges returned again and again to his celebrated themes: dreams, duels, labyrinths, mirrors, infinite libraries, the manipulations of chance, gauchos, knife fighters, tigers, and the elusive nature of identity itself. Playfully experimenting with ostensibly subliterary genres, he took the detective story and turned it into metaphysics; he took fantasy writing and made it, with its questioning and reinventing of everyday reality, central to the craft of fiction; he took the literary essay and put it to use reviewing wholly imaginary books. Bringing together for the first time in English all of Borges’s magical stories, and all of them newly rendered into English in brilliant translations by Andrew Hurley, Collected Fictions is the perfect one-volume compendium for all who have long loved Borges, and a superb introduction to the master’s work for all who have yet to discover this singular genius. For more than seventy-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 2,000 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Author : Jorge Luis Borges
Publisher : Allen Lane
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Short stories, Spanish
ISBN : STANFORD:36105024329240

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Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges Pdf

A collection of short stories by a poet, critic and writer, translated into a single volume. Includes THE UNIVERSAL HISTORY OF INIQUITY, FICCIONES, THE ALEPH and SHAKESPEARE'S MEMORY.

Author : Jorge Luis Borges
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0811200124

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Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges Pdf

Forty short stories and essays have been selected as representative of the Argentine writer's metaphysical narratives.

Author : Gene H. Bell-Villada
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0783790325

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Borges and His Fiction by Gene H. Bell-Villada Pdf

Author : Jorge Luis Borges
Publisher : Penguin Modern Classics
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Classical fiction
ISBN : 0141184841

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Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges Pdf

Jorge Luis Borges's Labyrinths is a collection of short stories and essays showcasing one of Latin America's most influential and imaginative writers. This Penguin Modern Classics edition is edited by Donald A. Yates and James E. Irby, with an introduction by James E. Irby and a preface by André Maurois. 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', whose infinite shelves contain every book that could ever exist, 'Funes the Memorious' the tale of a man fated never to forget a single detail of his life, and 'Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote', in which a French poet makes it his life's work to create an identical copy of Don Quixote. In later life, dogged by increasing blindness, Borges used essays and brief tantalising parables to explore the enigma of time, identity and imagination. Playful and disturbing, scholarly and seductive, his is a haunting and utterly distinctive voice. Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. A poet, critic and short story writer, he received numerous awards for his work including the 1961 International Publisher's Prize (shared with Samuel Beckett). He has a reasonable claim, along with Kafka and Joyce, to be one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. If you enjoyed Labyrinths, you might like Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis and Other Stories, also available in Penguin Modern Classics. 'His is the literature of eternity'Peter Ackroyd, The Times 'One of the towering figures of literature in Spanish'James Woodall, Guardian 'Probably the greatest twentieth-century author never to win the Nobel Prize'Economist

Author : Naomi Lindstrom
Publisher : Twayne Pub
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 080578327X

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Jorge Luis Borges by Naomi Lindstrom Pdf

Examines both periods of the Argentine writer's works--his early baroque style with elaborate plot construction, and his later more traditional narratives

Author : Jaime Alazraki
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1988-08-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521306843

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Borges and the Kabbalah by Jaime Alazraki Pdf

This volume brings together a collection of essays on Borges by leading scholar Jaime Alazraki. Together the essays constitute an introduction to important aspects of Borges' oeuvre, including the influence of the Kabbalah, structure and style in the fiction, Borges' poetry, and Borges' impact on Latin American literature.

Author : Jorge Luis Borges
Publisher : Plume Books
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Argentina
ISBN : STANFORD:36105007494128

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The Aleph and Other Stories, 1933-1969 by Jorge Luis Borges Pdf

"Dazzling and unmistakable in style, resonant in meaning, Jorge Luis Borges' 'The Aleph and Other Stories' contains the best of Borges' fiction. Included also is a lengthy autobiographical essay written especially for this volume. The twenty stories in this book cover the whole span and all the various facets of Borges' forty-year career as a short story writer. The collection is the most definitive and comprehensive available in English."--Jacket.

Author : Jorge Luis Borges
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0292715498

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Dreamtigers by Jorge Luis Borges Pdf

Poems, stories, and personal reflections reveal the interwoven existence of imagination and reality in the mind of the South American writer

Author : Jorge Luis Borges
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780811221177

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Professor Borges: A Course on English Literature by Jorge Luis Borges Pdf

In English at last, Borges’s erudite and entertaining lectures on English literature from Beowulf to Oscar Wilde Writing for Harper’s Magazine, Edgardo Krebs describes Professor Borges:“A compilation of the twenty-five lectures Borges gave in 1966 at the University of Buenos Aires, where he taught English literature. Starting with the Vikings’ kennings and Beowulf and ending with Stevenson and Oscar Wilde, the book traverses a landscape of ‘precursors,’cross-cultural borrowings, and genres of expression, all connected by Borges into a vast interpretive web. This is the most surprising and useful of Borges’s works to have appeared posthumously.” Borges takes us on a startling, idiosyncratic, fresh, and highly opinionated tour of English literature, weaving together countless cultural traditions of the last three thousand years. Borges’s lectures — delivered extempore by a man of extraordinary erudition — bring the canon to remarkably vivid life. Now translated into English for the first time, these lectures are accompanied by extensive and informative notes by the Borges scholars Martín Arias and Martín Hadis.

Author : Edna Aizenberg
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Literature
ISBN : 082620712X

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Borges and His Successors by Edna Aizenberg Pdf

"In the first book devoted to the impact made by Borges on the contemporary aesthetic imagination, Aizenberg brings together specially commissioned essays from international scholars in a variety of disciplines to provide a wide-ranging assessment of Borges's influence on the fiction, literary theory, and arts of our time."--Publishers website.

Author : Nala Emme
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 499 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781664181182

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Everything and Nothing by Nala Emme Pdf

Prose and poetry tell the multi-narrative story of one pivotal summer during the lives of four interconnected individuals as they grapple with family conflict, friendship, and individuality, with first love and second chances, with impermanence and spirituality, and with the sweeping awareness of mortality.