| Description |
287 pages ; 20 cm |
| Series |
Penguin classics |
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Penguin classics.
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| Contents |
Fictions: Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis tertius. The garden of forking paths. The lottery in Babylon. Pierre Menard, author of the Quixote. The circular ruins. The library of Babel. Funes the memorious. The shape of the sword. Theme of the traitor and the hero. Death and the compass. The sweet miracle. Three versions of Judas. The sect of the phoenix. The immortal. The theologians. Story of the warrior and the captive. Emma Zunz. The House of Asterion. Deutsches requiem. Averroe's search. The Zahir. The waiting. The god's script -- Essays: The Argentine writer and the tradition. The wall and the books. The fearful sphere of Pascal. Partial magic in the Quixote. Valéry as symbol. Kafka and his precursors. Avatars of the tortoise. The mirror of enigmas. A note on (towards) Bernard Shaw. A new refutation of time -- Parables: Inferna, I, 32. Paradiso, XXXI, 108. Ragnarök. Parable of Cervantes and the Quixote. The witness. A problem. Borges and I. Everything and nothing -- Elegy |
| Summary |
Jorge Luis Borges was a literary spellbinder whose tales of magic, mystery and murder are shot through with deep philosophical paradoxes. This collection brings together many of his stories, including the celebrated Library of Babel |
| Notes |
Previously published in Penguin Books in 1970 |
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Translated from the Spanish |
| Subject |
Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986 -- Translations into English.
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| SUBJECT |
Argentina -- Social life and customs http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114246 -- Fiction.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001562
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| Reading List |
ALL202 prescribed text 2024
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| Genre/Form |
Translations.
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| Author |
Yates, Donald Alfred
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Irby, James E
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| ISBN |
0141184841 paperback |
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9780141184845 paperback |
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