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Tipo de Material: | Ficção |
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Tipo de Documento | Livro |
Todos os Autores / Contribuintes: | Jorge Luis Borges; Anthony Kerrigan |
ISBN: | 0802130305 9780802130303 |
Número OCLC: | 236037924 |
Descrição: | 174 pages 21 cm |
Responsabilidade: | 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 Ler mais...