Jorge Luis Borges
1) Labyrinths
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English
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The classic by Latin America's finest writer of the twentieth century—a true literary sensation—with an introduction by cyber-author William Gibson.
The groundbreaking trans-genre work of Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) has been insinuating itself into the structure, stance, and very breath of world literature for well over half a century. Multi-layered, self-referential, elusive, and allusive writing...2) Ficciones
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English
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The seventeen pieces in Ficciones demonstrate the gargantuan powers of imagination, intelligence, and style of one of the greatest writers of this or any other century. Borges sends us on a journey into a compelling, bizarre, and profoundly resonant realm; we enter the fearful sphere of Pascal's abyss, the surreal and literal labyrinth of books, and the iconography of eternal return. More playful and approachable than the fictions themselves are Borges's...
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Español
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Este es otro volumen de la exitosa Colección Mejores Cuentos, una selección de obras maestras de autores de diversas nacionalidades y con temáticas muy variadas, pero que comparten una cualidad literaria enorme y posiblemente la más importante: brindar placer al lector. En "Los Mejores Cuentos LatinoAmericanos", al igual que en otras ediciones de la Colección de Mejores Cuentos, descubrirás una selección representativa de la vasta obra de cuentistas...
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Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
At the age of seventy, after a gap of twenty years, Jorge Luis Borges returned to writing short stories. In Brodie’s Report, he returned also to the style of his earlier years with its brutal realism, nightmares, and bloodshed. Many of these stories, including “Unworthy” and “The Other Duel,” are set in the macho Argentinean underworld, and even the rivalries between artists are suffused with...
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Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Unabridged CDs, 5 CDs, 5 hours
Read by George Guidall
"An unparalleled treasury of marvels...Along with a tiny cohort of peers, and seers (Kafka and Joyce come to mind), Borges is more than a stunning storyteller and a brilliant stylist; he's a mirror who reflects the spirit of his time."
-Melvin Jules Bukiet, Chicago Tribune
Read by George Guidall
"An unparalleled treasury of marvels...Along with a tiny cohort of peers, and seers (Kafka and Joyce come to mind), Borges is more than a stunning storyteller and a brilliant stylist; he's a mirror who reflects the spirit of his time."
-Melvin Jules Bukiet, Chicago Tribune
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
In his writing, Borges always combined high seriousness with a wicked sense of fun. Here he reveals his delight in re-creating (or making up) colorful stories from the Orient, the Islamic world, and the Wild West, as well as his horrified fascination with knife fights, political and personal betrayal, and bloodthirsty revenge. Sparkling with the sheer exuberant pleasure of story-telling, this collection marked the emergence of an utterly distinctive...
8) Ficciones
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Publisher
Vintage Espanol
Pub. Date
2012, c2011
Physical Desc
221 pages ; 21 cm
Language
Español
10) El aleph
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Publisher
Vintage Espanol
Pub. Date
2012, c2011
Physical Desc
213 pages ; 21 cm
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Español
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Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
2015
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English
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An NYRB Classics Original
Thus Were Their Faces offers a comprehensive selection of the short fiction of Silvina Ocampo, undoubtedly one of the twentieth century’s great masters of the story and the novella. Here are tales of doubles and impostors, angels and demons, a marble statue of a winged horse that speaks, a beautiful seer who writes the autobiography of her own death, a lapdog who records the dreams of an old woman, a suicidal...
Thus Were Their Faces offers a comprehensive selection of the short fiction of Silvina Ocampo, undoubtedly one of the twentieth century’s great masters of the story and the novella. Here are tales of doubles and impostors, angels and demons, a marble statue of a winged horse that speaks, a beautiful seer who writes the autobiography of her own death, a lapdog who records the dreams of an old woman, a suicidal...
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Birlinn Limited
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
A collection of fiction and nonfiction by the Scottish author of Treasure Island, selected by two acclaimed Argentinian writers.
First imagined in the 1960s but never published, this collection of Robert Louis Stevenson’s essays, fables and short stories was imagined by Jorge Luis Borges and Adolfo Bioy Casares—a collection of their favorite works of nonfiction, short stories, and fables. The themes—integrity,...
First imagined in the 1960s but never published, this collection of Robert Louis Stevenson’s essays, fables and short stories was imagined by Jorge Luis Borges and Adolfo Bioy Casares—a collection of their favorite works of nonfiction, short stories, and fables. The themes—integrity,...