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Gattung/Form: | short stories Fiction Science fiction Short stories Translations Nouvelles Translations into English Romans, nouvelles, etc |
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Name: | Jorge Luis Borges; Jorge Luis Borges |
Medienart: | Belletristik |
Dokumenttyp | Buch |
Alle Autoren: | Jorge Luis Borges; Anthony Kerrigan |
ISBN: | 0802130305 9780802130303 |
OCLC-Nummer: | 1149012938 |
Anmerkungen: | Translation of: Ficciones. Originally published in Spanish in 1956 by Emecé Editores, S.A., Buenos Aires. |
Beschreibung: | 174 pages ; 21 cm |
Inhalt: | Part one: The garden of forking paths. Prologue -- Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius / translated by Alastair Reid -- The approach to Al-Mu'tasim / translated by Anthony Kerrigan -- Pierre Menard, author of Don Quixote / translated by Anthony Bonner -- The circular ruins / translated by Anthony Bonner -- The Babylon lottery / translated by Anthony Kerrigan -- An examination of the work of Herbert Quain / translated by Anthony Kerrigan -- The library of Babel / translated by Anthony Kerrigan -- The garden of forking paths / translated by Helen Temple and Ruthven Todd. Part two: Artifices. Prologue -- Funes, the memorious / translated by Anthony Kerrigan -- The form of the sword / translated by Anthony Kerrigan -- Theme of the traitor and hero / translated by Anthony Kerrigan -- Death and the compass / translated by Anthony Kerrigan -- The secret miracle / translated by Anthony Kerrigan -- Three versions of Judas / translated by Anthony Kerrigan -- The end / translated by Anthony Kerrigan -- The sect of the Phoenix / translated by Anthony Kerrigan -- The South / translated by Anthony Kerrigan. |
Andere Titel | Ficciones. |
Verfasserangabe: | Jorge Luis Borges ; edited and with an introduction by Anthony Kerrigan. |
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Praise for Ficciones: “Without Borges the modern Latin American novel simply would not exist.” —Carlos Fuentes“In resounding the note of the marvelous last struck in English by Wells and Chesterson, in permitting infinity to enter and distort his imagination, [Borges] has lifted fiction away from the flat earth where most of our novels and short stories still take place.” —John Updike“These brief Ficciones have to be read one at a time, and slowly; then they throb with uncanny and haunting power.” —The Atlantic Monthly“Borges is the most important Spanish-language writer since Cervantes.” —Mario Vargas Llosa“[Borges] engages the heart as well as the intelligence; his genius strikes, undismayed as Theseus, through the labyrinths of our life and time to the accomplishment of new, inspiring and stunningly beautiful work.” —John Barth“One of the finest, subtlest, and least appreciated of comedians…[Borges is] a central fact of Western culture.” —The Washington Post Book World“Borges’s composed, carefully wrought, gnarled style is at once the means of his art and its object—his way of ordering and giving meaning to the bizarre and terrifying world he creates: it is a brilliant, burnished instrument, and it is quite adequate to the extreme demands his baroque imagination makes of it . . . . Absolutely and most vividly original.” —Saturday Review Weiterlesen…