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Collected Fictions - Jorge Luis Borges, Andrew Hurley
Collected Fictions
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Jorge Luis Borges has been called the greatest Spanish- language writer of the century. Now, for the first time in English, all of Borges's dazzling fictions are gathered into a single volume--from his 1935 debut with The Universal History of Iniquity, through his immensely influential... show more
Jorge Luis Borges has been called the greatest Spanish- language writer of the century. Now, for the first time in English, all of Borges's dazzling fictions are gathered into a single volume--from his 1935 debut with The Universal History of Iniquity, through his immensely influential collections Ficciones and The Aleph, the enigmatic prose-poems of The Maker, up to his final, and never-before-translated, work from the '80s, Shakespeare's Memory. In maddeningly ingenious stories that play with the very form of the short story itself, Borges returns again and again to his celebrated themes: dreams, labyrinths, mirrors, infinite libraries, the manipulations of chance, gaucho knife fighters, transparent tigers, and the elusive nature of identity itself. Collected Fictions is the perfect one- volume compendium for all those who have long loved Borges, and the perfect introduction to the master's work for all those who have yet to discover him.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN: 9780670849703 (0670849707)
Publisher: Viking Adult
Pages no: 576
Edition language: English
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Bettie's Books
Bettie's Books rated it
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Selected Fictions:The Garden of Forking PathsMan on Pink CornerThe Library of Babel#56 TBR Busting 2013
JasonKoivu
JasonKoivu rated it
5.0 Collected Fictions
Reading Jorge Luis Borges's Collected Fictions is like being thrown into the ring with a merciless prize fighter, getting the shit kicked out of you, and loving every minute of it.These pieces felt more like punches than short stories. Borges jabs to your head, jarring your brain with damning conver...
Beth's List Love on Booklikes
Beth's List Love on Booklikes rated it
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Loved the twists and turns and humor in his stories. Am just sorry that this was highlights of the collected works, so I still need to track down the book version to read many of the stories I'd hoped to get on the audio. Still, the audio makes me want to run out and get the book, pronto!
UNICORN PORN FOR ALL
UNICORN PORN FOR ALL rated it
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Deep in Don Quixote, for a while I convinced myself that Cervantes had written the footnotes too, and the Quixote commentators the editor cited were actually made up by Cervantes. He messes with you like that: he plays so many tricks that you end up thinking anything is possible.Four months later I...
Never Read Passively
Never Read Passively rated it
4.0 Collected Fiction
Labyrinths. Space and time. Lions. Life and death. Coins. Memory and identity.
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