| Collected Fictions
(1999)
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| Front Cover |
Book Details |
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| Author |
| Jorge Luis Borges |
| Andrew Hurley |
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| Publication Date |
1-9-1999 |
| Format |
Paperback (214
x
144
mm)
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| Publisher |
Penguin Books |
| Language |
English |
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| Plot |
| Jorge Luis Borges has been called the greatest Spanish-language writer of the century. Now, for the first time in English, all of Borges' 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, 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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| Product Details |
| ISBN |
0140286802 |
| Edition |
1st U.S. paperback e |
| Nr of Pages |
565 |
| First Edition |
No |
| Rare |
No |
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| Original Details |
| Original Publication Year |
1999 |
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