Ficciones
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Author
Contributions
- Anthony Kerrigan (Editor) - Contributor
- Anthony Bonner (Translator) - Contributor
Publication
Grove Weidenfeld, New York
Language
English
Word Count
43,500 words, Guess
Page Count
174 pages
Physical Format
Paperback
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL7874504M
- ISBN-139780802130303
- ISBN-100802130305
- OCLC Control Number642715
- OCLC Control Number236037924
and 4 more
- Internet Archiveficcionesenglish00jorg
- Library of Congress Control Number62013054
- LibraryThing23507
- Goodreads57624452
Classifications
- LCCPQ7797.B635 F513
Description
A collection of his short stories in which Borges often uses the labyrinth as a literary device to expound his ideas on all aspects of human life and endeavor. ---------- Contains: [Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL444914W)
Description
The seventeen pieces in Ficciones demonstrate the gargantuan powers of imagination, intelligence, and style of one of the greatest writers of this or any other century. Borges sends us on a journey into a compelling, bizarre, and profoundly resonant realm; we enter the fearful sphere of Pascal's abyss, the surreal and literal labyrinth of books, and the iconography of eternal return. More playful and approachable than the fictions themselves are Borges's Prologues, brief elucidations that offer the uninitiated a passageway into the whirlwind of Borges's genius and mirror the precision and potency of his intellect and inventiveness, his piercing irony, his skepticism, and his obsession with fantasy. To enter the worlds in Ficciones is to enter the mind of Jorge Luis Borges, wherein lies Heaven, Hell, and everything in between.
First Sentence
I owe the discovery of Uqbar to the conjunction of a mirror and an encyclopedia.
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