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Ficciones - Jorge Luis Borges
Ficciones
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“Pensé en un laberinto de laberintos, en un sinuoso laberinto creciente que abarcara el pasado y el porvenir y que implicara de algún modo los astros”. —Jorge Luis Borges Ficciones es quizá el libro más reconocido de Jorge Luis Borges, compuesto por los libros El jardín de senderos que se... show more
“Pensé en un laberinto de laberintos, en un sinuoso laberinto creciente que abarcara el pasado y el porvenir y que implicara de algún modo los astros”. —Jorge Luis Borges Ficciones es quizá el libro más reconocido de Jorge Luis Borges, compuesto por los libros El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan y Artificios, ambos considerados piezas fundamentales del universo borgiano. Entre los cuentos que aquí se reúnen hay algunos de corte policial como “La muerte y la brújula”, la historia de un  detective que investiga el asesinato de un rabino; otros sobre libros imaginarios como “Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius”, una extraordinaria reflexión sobre la literatura y su influencia en el mundo físico;  y muchos pertenecientes al género fantástico como “El Sur”, acaso su mejor relato, en palabras del mismo autor. Fascinante y sorprendente, Ficciones le brinda al lector un mundo de reflexiones sobre las convenciones de lectura y el modo de entender la realidad.
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Format: paperback
ISBN: 9780307950925 (0307950921)
Publisher: Vintage
Pages no: 224
Edition language: Spanish
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Edward
Edward rated it
4.0 Fictions
The Garden of Forking Paths (1941)Foreword--Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius--The Approach to Al-Mu'tasim--Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote--The Circular Ruins--The Lottery in Babylon--A Survey of the Works of Herbert Quain--The Library of Babel--The Garden of Forking PathsArtifices (1944)Foreword--Fu...
So.... Nicky?
So.... Nicky? rated it
4.0 Ficciones
Challenging and full of ideas; I'm still chewing on it, two weeks out. If you haven't read dense fiction in awhile, I'd start with the stories in Part Two, then track back to Part One. Wasn't as much a fan of the ones that were meta-literary criticism, though these have many clever bits. All are sto...
M Sarki
M Sarki rated it
5.0 Ficciones
http://msarki.tumblr.com/post/85474584243/ficciones-by-jorge-luis-borgesAs I was reading these stories, these ficciones, I was wondering where I might have heard this Borges voice before. And as I read it seemed to me that each story was important in its own rank as if derived from a serious study ...
Lisa (Harmony)
Lisa (Harmony) rated it
2.0 Ficciones (English Translation)
Borges' Ficciones consists of two "books" of 17 short works of fiction published mostly in the 1940s. I'm told they're landmarks in not just Latin American fiction but modernist literature. Woven throughout the stories are fantastic elements I can well imagine fed into magical realism. I can't say I...
Blogged Out Ma Nut
Blogged Out Ma Nut rated it
5.0
The best Spanish language author I have found so far."The Library of Babel" is the clear winner for me, and reveals Borge's power to engage the imagination to create such fantastical imagery, despite our knowledge of how few pages the image will last...This unreal collection will subvert the normal,...
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