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Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Twenty fictional pieces survey the depth and range of the distinguished Argentine writer's forty-year career as he journeys inside the minds of an unrepentant Nazi, an imprisoned Maya priest, fanatical Christian theologians, a man awaiting his assassin, and a woman plotting vengeance on her father's "killer."
2) Ficciones
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Series
Language
Español
Description
The most popular collection of short stories by Argentine writer and poet Jorge Luis Borges, often considered the best introduction to his work.
4) Ficciones
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Language
English
Description
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...
5) El aleph
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Español
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Originalmente publicada en 1949, esta colección reúne dieciocho relatos entre los que se encuentra algunos de los más admirados cuentos de la literatura: “El Aleph”, la clásica historia de una resplandeciente esfera en la que confluyen de un modo asombroso todos los tiempos y todos los espacios en el universo; “El Zahir”, una fascinante reflexión sobre la obsesión, Borges narra la historia de un objeto que inspira la fascinación...
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