Borges Second Edition

Author : Jorge Luis Borges
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 48,8 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 : Lisa Block de Behar
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438450322

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Borges, Second Edition by Lisa Block de Behar Pdf

Borges cites innumerable authors in the pages making up his life's work, and innumerable authors have cited and continue to cite him. More than a figure, then, the quotation is an integral part of the fabric of his writing, a fabric made anew by each reading and each re-citation it undergoes, in the never-ending throes of a work-in-progress. Block de Behar makes of this reading a plea for the very art of communication; a practice that takes community not in the totalized and totalizable soil of pre-established definitions or essences, but on the ineluctable repetitions that constitute language as such, and that guarantee the expansiveness—through etymological coincidences of meaning, through historical contagions, through translinguistic sharings of particular experiences—of a certain index of universality. This edition includes a new introduction by the author and three entirely new chapters, as well as updated images and corrections to the original translation.

Author : Jorge Luis Borges
Publisher : Penguin Books
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2000-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : PSU:000048620505

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Selected Non-Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges Pdf

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.

Author : Jorge Luis Borges
Publisher : Penguin Modern Classics
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,5 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 : Jorge Luis Borges
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 40,8 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 : Norman Thomas di Giovanni
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 54,5 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 : University of Texas Press
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 49,8 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 : David William Foster
Publisher : Scholarly Title
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173027903162

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Jorge Luis Borges by David William Foster Pdf

Author : Jorge Luis Borges
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-31
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780811218757

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

A compilation of the twenty-five lectures Borges gave in 1966 at the University of Buenos Aires, where he taught English literature.

Author : Nala Emme
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 499 pages
File Size : 51,6 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.

Author : Willis Barnstone
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0252068637

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With Borges on an Ordinary Evening in Buenos Aires by Willis Barnstone Pdf

Combining spirited and philosophical conversations, biographical anecdotes, citations from poetry, and literary analysis, this is a poignant portrait of Jorge Luis Borges in his later years. It presents the poet-storyteller as a figure of paradox and contradictions.

Author : Edna Aizenberg
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 46,7 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 : Jorge Luis Borges
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0811218384

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Seven Nights by Jorge Luis Borges Pdf

The incomparable Borges delivered these seven lectures in Buenos Aires in 1977; attendees were treated to Borges' erudition on the following topics: Dante's The Divine Comedy, Nightmares, Thousand and One Dreams, Buddhism, Poetry, The Kabbalah, and Blindness.

Author : Jorge Luis Borges
Publisher : Pocket Paragon
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015049977229

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The Library of Babel by Jorge Luis Borges Pdf

"Not many living artists would be sufficiently brave or inspired to attempt reflecting in art what Borges constructs in words. But the detailed, evocative etchings by Erik Desmazieres provide a perfect counterpoint to the visionary prose. Like Borges, Desmazieres has created his own universe, his own definition of the meaning, topography and geography of the Library of Babel. Printed together, with the etchings reproduced in fine-line duotone, text and art unite to present an artist's book that belongs in the circle of Borges's sacrosanct Crimson Hexagon - "books smaller than natural books, books omnipotent, illustrated, and magical.""--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : Edwin Williamson
Publisher : Viking Adult
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114333615

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Borges, a Life by Edwin Williamson Pdf

Short story writer, essayist, and poet Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) revolutionized the literature of Latin America almost single-handedly and left a legion of readers and admirers worldwide.Based on an unprecedented range of interviews and on research into previously unknown or unavailable resources, this is the first biography in any language to encompass the entire span of Borges’s life and work. In Borges, Edwin Williamson brings to life the little known human side of the writer: his ancestral roots in Argentina, his relations with family and friends, his passions and despairs, and the evolution of his political ideas. By correlating this new biographical information with Borges’s literary texts, Williamson also reconstructs the dynamics of his inner world—the conflicts, desires, and obsessions that drove the man and shaped his work. This major new study finally unlocks the mysteries that have obscured the life of Borges. The result is a compelling and often poignant portrait that will radically transform our views of this modern master.