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| Genre/Form: | Translations Translations into English |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Fiction |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: | Jorge Luis Borges; Anthony Kerrigan |
| ISBN: | 9780679422990 0679422994 |
| OCLC Number: | 1099735966 |
| Description: | 142 pages ; 21 cm |
| Contents: | Part one : the garden of forking paths: Prologue -- Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Terius -- The approach to Al-Mu'tasim -- Pierre Menard, author of Don Quixote -- The circular ruins -- The babylon lottery -- An examination of the work of Herbert Quain -- The library of Babel -- The garden of forking paths. Part two : artifices: Prologue -- Funes, the memorious -- The form of the sword -- Theme of the traitor and hero -- Death and the compass -- the secret miracle -- Three versions of Judas -- The end -- The sect of the phoenix -- The south. |
| Responsibility: | Jorge Luis Borges ; with an introduction by Anthony Kerrigan. |
Abstract:
"Jorge Luis Borges was one of those very rare creators who changed the face of an art form--in his case, the short story. His work has been paid the ultimate honor of being appropriated and imitated by innumerable writers on every continent of the world. The seventeen brief masterpieces of Ficciones explode the boundaries of genre, offering up labyrinthine ..."--Publisher's description.
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