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By common consent, the Argentinian Jorge Luis Borges (1890-1986) is one of the greatest writers to have emerged from Latin America. His finest work is Ficciones (1944), a collection of brilliantly-crafted, essay-like short stories.
Writers responsible for the modern upsurge in Latin American narrative, like Gabriel García Márquez (Columbia, a Nobel Prize winner), Julio Cortázar (Argentina) and Carlos Fuentes (Mexico), concur in identifying Borges as an honoured predecessor. In turn, Borges' work has been a major influence for writers in English and other languages, as well as film makers among them Peter Carey, Nadine gordimer, Salman Rushdie, Umberto Eco, Italo Calvino, Michel Foucault, Jean Luc Godard, Peter Greenaway, and Bernardo Bertolucci.
This edition by Gordon Brotherston and Peter Hulme, updated from the original 1976 edition by the same authors, offers a comprehensive selection of stories from the work in the original language with an English introduction, detailed notes, a generous vocabulary, bibliography, as well as chronological and other tables.
Table of Contents
Life Dates
Introduction
The Argentinian and the cosmopolitan experience
When and how the Ficciones came to be written
Persona, character and plot
The diminished 'I' and the totalizing vision
In sum
Notes to the Introduction
Select Bibliography
FICCIONES
Tlon, Uqbar, Orbius Tertius
El acercamiento a Almotasim
Pierre Menard, autor del Quijote
Las ruinas circulares
La loteria en Babilonia
La biblioteca de Babel
El jardin de senderos que se bifurcan
Funes el memorioso
La forma de la espada
Tema del traidor y del heroe
La muerte y la brujula
El milagro secreta
Elfin
ElSur
El aleph
Notes
Vocabulary
Product details
| Published | 09 Dec 1999 |
|---|---|
| Format | Paperback |
| Edition | 2nd |
| Extent | 232 |
| ISBN | 9781853995903 |
| Imprint | Bristol Classical Press |
| Dimensions | 215 x 139 mm |
| Series | Spanish Texts |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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