Ficciones (Book, 1969) [Texas Group Catalog]
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Ficciones

Ficciones

Author: Jorge Luis Borges; Anthony Kerrigan
Publisher: New York : Grove Press, 1969 ©1962
Edition/Format:   Print book : Fiction : English : Seventy-fifth anniversary edition; First Grove Atlantic editionView all editions and formats
Summary:
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  Read more...
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Genre/Form: short stories
Fiction
Science fiction
Short stories
Translations
Nouvelles
Translations into English
Romans, nouvelles, etc
Named Person: Jorge Luis Borges; Jorge Luis Borges
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Jorge Luis Borges; Anthony Kerrigan
ISBN: 9780802130303 0802130305
OCLC Number: 1260301164
Notes: Originally published in Spanish in 1956 by Emecé Editores, S.A., Buenos Aires
Description: 174 pages ; 21 cm
Other Titles: Short stories.
Responsibility: by Jorge Luis Borges ; edited and with an introduction by Anthony Kerrigan

Abstract:

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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