Jorge Luis Borges

Summer was drawing to a close, and I realized that the book was monstrous.' These labyrinthine short stories dissolve the boundary between reality and illusion and describe the limits of infinity.

The Garden of Forking Paths

Borges: el autor infinito El Aleph es un libro icónico de Jorge Luis Borges, el gran autor argentino admirado por García Márquez, Vargas Llosa, John Banville, Michel Houellebecq y tantos otros escritores contemporáneos. Los cuentos que lo integran son un prodigio de puzles filosóficos, intrigas fantásticas o policiacas y personajes que se graban en la memoria, como Emma Zunz. «El inmortal» explora el efecto que la inmortalidad causaría en los hombres; «Los teólogos» es un sueño melancólico sobre la identidad personal; «La otra muerte», una fantasía sobre el tiempo. «El Aleph» -publicado por primera vez en 1945 y que en 1949 dio nombre al libro- es uno de los mejores cuentos de todos los tiempos y aborda uno de los temas recurrentes en la literatura de Borges: el infinito, pero también puede leerse como una historia de amor con un comienzo memorable: «La candente mañana de febrero en que Beatriz Viterbo murió, después de una imperiosa agonía que no se rebajó un solo instante ni al sentimentalismo ni al miedo, noté que las carteleras de fierro de la Plaza Constitución habían renovado no sé qué aviso de cigarrillos rubios; el hecho me dolió, pues comprendí que el incesante y vasto universo ya se apartaba de ella y que ese cambio era el primero de una serie infinita». Reseñas: «No lo cite: léalo. [...] Urge no ya leerlo o releerlo, sino, como sugería Bolaño, "releerlo otra vez".» Gonzalo Núñez, La Razón «Uno de los escritores más extraordinarios del siglo xx.» The New York Times «El escritor latinoamericano más influyente del siglo xx.» The Washington Post Book World «Junto con un pequeño séquito de colegas y profetas (se me ocurren Kafka y Joyce), Borges es más que un cuentista sorprendente y un brillante estilista: es un espejo que refleja el espíritu de su tiempo.» Chicago Tribune «Borges, visionario escéptico, nos fascina. [...] Cumple con nuestro anhelo esencial en cuanto a las razones por que leemos.» Harold Bloom, Cómo leer a Jorge Luis Borges «Borges es el escritor en español más importante desde Cervantes [...] Uno de los artistas contemporáneos más memorables [...] La deuda que tenemos contraída con él quienes escribimos en español es enorme.» Mario Vargas Llosa

El Aleph

One of the most remarkable artists of our age.' MARIO VARGAS LLOSA THE BOOK OF SAND was the last of Borges' major collections to be published. The stories are, in his words, 'variations on favourite themes... combining a plain and at times almost colloquial style with a fantastic plot'. It includes such marvellous tales as 'The Congress', 'Undr' and 'The Mirror and the Mask'. Also included are the handful of stories written right at the end of Borges' life - 'August 25, 1983', 'Blue Tigers', 'The Rose of Paracelsus' and 'Shakespeare's Memory.

The Book of Sand and Shakespeare's Memory

A bilingual collection presents two hundred of the Argentine author's poems.

Selected Poems

Poems, stories, and personal reflections reveal the interwoven existence of imagination and reality in the mind of the South American writer

Dreamtigers

Lectures discuss The Divine Comedy, nightmares, The Thousand and One Nights, Buddhism, poetry, the Kabbalah, and blindness

Seven Nights

Ficções reúne os contos publicados por Borges em 1941 sob o título de O jardim de veredas que se bifurcam (com exceção de "A aproximação a Almotásim", incorporado a outra obra) e outras dez narrativas com o subtítulo de Artifícios. Nesses textos, o leitor se defronta com um narrador inquisitivo que expõe, com elegância e economia de meios, de forma paradoxal e lapidar, suas conjecturas e perplexidades sobre o universo, retomando motivos recorrentes em seus poemas e ensaios desde o início de sua carreira: o tempo, a eternidade, o infinito. Os enredos são como múltiplos labirintos e se desdobram num jogo infindável de espelhos, especulações e hipóteses, às vezes com a perícia de intrigas policiais e o gosto da aventura, para quase sempre desembocar na perplexidade metafísica. Chamam a atenção a frase enxuta, o poder de síntese e o rigor da construção, que tem algo da poesia e outro tanto da prosa filosófica, sem nunca perder o humor desconcertante. Em Ficções estão alguns de seus textos mais famosos, como "Funes, o Memorioso", cujo protagonista tinha "mais lembranças do que terão tido todos os homens desde que o mundo é mundo"; "A biblioteca de Babel", em que o universo é equiparado a uma biblioteca eterna, infinita secreta e inútil; "Pierre Menard, autor do Quixote", cuja "admirável ambição era produzir páginas que coincidissem palavra por palavra e linha por linha com as de Miguel de Cervantes"; e "As ruínas circulares", em que o protagonista quer sonhar um homem "com integridade minuciosa e impô-lo à realidade e no final compreende que ele também era uma aparência, que outro o estava sonhando".

Ficções (1944)

FICTIONS is perhaps the single most mysterious and extraordinary collection of short stories written this century. Influenced by writers as disparate as Lewis Carroll, Stevenson and Cervantes, Borges is nethertheless a complete original who can turn dry logical puzzles in to enchanting fables. The Pieces in this volume represent his most accomplished work.

Fictions

Ficciones

The non-fiction work of the great Latin American poet and writer is collected here with essays, reviews, lectures, and political commentary on everything from Ellery Queen to the Kabbalah. Reprint.

Selected Non-fictions

In this collection of wise, witty and fascinating essays, Borges discusses the existence (or non-existence) of Hell, the flaws in English literary detectives, the philosophy of contradictions, and the many translators of 1001 Nights. Varied and enthralling, these pieces examine the very nature of our lives, from cinema and books to history and religion. GREAT IDEAS. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are.

The Perpetual Race of Achilles and the Tortoise

The House of Asterion

Adolfo Bioy Casares

Silvina Ocampo

'Antología de la literatura fantástica' reúne textos exquisitos seleccionados por los tres escritores argentinos más renombrados en el mundo. Entre los textos seleccionados figuran - John Aubrey, Max Beerbohm, José Bianco, Adolfo Bioy Casares, Léon Bloy, Jorge Luis Borges, Delia Ingenieros, Martin Buber, Richard Burton, Arturo Cancela, Pilar de Lusarreta, Thomas Carlyle, Lewis Carrol, Jean Cocteau, Julio Cortázar, G.K Chesterton, Chuang Tzu/, Santiago Davobe, Alexandra David- Neel, Lord Dunsany, Macedonio Fernández, James George Frazer, George Frost, Elena Garro, Giles Holloway Horn.

Antología de la literatura fantástica

`Here is a handsome edition of one of Borges' ficciones, in a translation first published in Labyrinths in 1962. It's an important story in the Borges' canon, incorporating most of the author's philosophical and esthetic preoccupations in a typically brief compass. With great solemnity and a convincing array of scholarly detail (including annotated references to imaginary books and articles), Borges contocts a fable of an alternate world and its infiltration of our own. The reality of Tlon is idealist: material objects have no existence; language has no nouns; its principal discipline is psychology, since its inhabitants see the universe as nothing but a series of mental processes. A series of 24 illustrations accompanies the text. Their disturbing resemblances to our reality make them appropriate reflections of Borges's imaginative constructs.' -- The Kingston Whig-Standard

Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius

Erik Desmazieres

"Not many living artists would be sufficiently brave or inspired to attempt reflecting in art what Borges constructs in words. But the detailed, evocative etchings by Erik Desmazieres provide a perfect counterpoint to the visionary prose. Like Borges, Desmazieres has created his own universe, his own definition of the meaning, topography and geography of the Library of Babel. Printed together, with the etchings reproduced in fine-line duotone, text and art unite to present an artist's book that belongs in the circle of Borges's sacrosanct Crimson Hexagon - "books smaller than natural books, books omnipotent, illustrated, and magical.""--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

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