Ficciones. (eBook, 1994) [Texas Group Catalog]
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Ficciones.

Ficciones.

Author: Jorge Luis Borges; Anthony Kerrigan; Anthony Bonner
Publisher: New York : Perseus Book LLC (Ingram), 1994.
Edition/Format:   eBook : Document : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"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 ReviewThe seventeen pieces in Ficciones demonstrate  Read more...
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Borges, Jorge Luis.
Ficciones.
New York : Perseus Book LLC (Ingram), ©1994
Material Type: Document, Internet resource
Document Type: Internet Resource, Computer File
All Authors / Contributors: Jorge Luis Borges; Anthony Kerrigan; Anthony Bonner
ISBN: 9780802130303 0802130305
OCLC Number: 1027193526
Description: 1 online resource (105 pages)

Abstract:

"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 ReviewThe 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,
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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, Read more...

 

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