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A Universal History of Iniquity by Jorge Luis Borges
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
In 1933 a sensationalist Argentinian newspaper employed Jorge Luis Borges to produce high-brow cultural commentary. Alongside the high-toned pieces, he also contributed these quirky blood-and-guts tales of gunslingers, gentlemanly scoundrels, evil wizards, pirates and false prophets. In his writing, Bo ...Show more
Aleph by Jorge Luis Borges
Category: Classics
Borges' stories have a deceptively simple, almost laconic style. In maddeningly ingenious stories that play with the very form of the short story, Borges returns again and again to his themes: dreams, labyrinths, mirrors, infinite libraries, the manipulations of chance, gaucho knife-fighters, transparen ...Show more
Borges A Personal Anthology by Jorge Luis Borges
Category: Colouring
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.
Brodie's Report by Jorge Luis Borges; Andrew Hurley (Translator)
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
At the age of seventy, after a gap of twenty years, Jorge Luis Borges returned to writing short stories. In Brodie's Reportand In Praise of Darknesshe returned also to the style of his earlier years with its brutal realism, its nightmares and its bloodshed. Many of these stories, such as 'Unworthy' and ...Show more
Brodie's Report by Andrew Jorge Luis; Hurley Borges
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics
CONVERSATIONS VOLUME 3 by BORGES JORGE LUIS
Category: Fiction
"I wrote a poem this morning, and one of the themes of the poem is that languages are not equivalent, that each language is a new way of feeling the world."--Jorge Luis Borges Recorded during Borges' final years, this third volume of his conversations with Osvaldo Ferrari offers a rare glimpse into the ...Show more
Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges, translated y Andrew Hurley
Category: Fiction
From Jorge Luis Borges's 1935 debut withThe Universal History of Iniquity, through his immensely influential collections Ficciones and The Aleph, these enigmatic, elaborate, imaginative inventions display his talent for turning fiction on its head by playing with form and genre and toying with language. ...Show more
Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Translated Texts S.
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".
Dreamtigers by Jorge Luis Borges
Category: Classics | Series: Texas Pan American Series
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, D ...Show more