Ficciones
by Jorge Luis Borges
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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 Prologues, brief elucidations that offer the uninitiated a passageway into the whirlwind of Borges's genius and mirror the precision and potency of his intellect and inventiveness, his piercing irony, his skepticism, and his obsession with fantasy. To enter the worlds in Ficciones is to enter the mind of Jorge Luis Borges, wherein lies Heaven, Hell, and everything in between.
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Anachronisms, speculative fiction, subjective idealism, duodecimals, aneurysms, adjectives, hermeticism, philanthropy, cabala, persecution, Social life and customs, Spanish language books, Readers, Translations into English, Spanish language, Fiction, Spanish fiction, Modern fiction, Literary Criticism, Fiction - General, General, Fiction (fictional works by one author), Borges, jorge luis, 1899-1986, Latin american literature, translations into english, Romance literature, CUENTOS ARGENTINOS, Spanish fiction in Spanish, Italian language materials, Argentine Short stories, Manners and customs, Nouvelles argentines, Spanish Short stories, Argentine Science fiction, Novela, Vida social y costumbres, Short storiesPeople
Jorge Luis Borges, Adolfo Bioy Casares, Herbert Ashe, Ezra Buckley, Jesus Christ, Faucigny LucingePlaces
Argentina, Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius, Buenos Aires, Lucerne, London, United StatesTimes
20th century, 1935-1947, 17th century, 1947, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1944Showing 10 featured editions. View all 78 editions?
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Ficciones
2006-06, Joaquin Moritz / Emece
Paperback
in Spanish
- EDICiÖN DE ANIVERSARIO; Primera reimpresiön (México)
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Ficciones
1983?, Grove Weidenfeld
Paperback
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- 1st Evergreen edition (30)
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First Sentence
"I owe the discovery of Uqbar to the conjunction of a mirror and an encyclopedia."
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A collection of his short stories in which Borges often uses the labyrinth as a literary device to expound his ideas on all aspects of human life and endeavor.
Contains:
Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius
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