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Item specifics
- Condition
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- Paperback
- ISBN
- 9780140286809
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0140286802
ISBN-13
9780140286809
eBay Product ID (ePID)
233956
Product Key Features
Book Title
Collected Fictions
Number of Pages
576 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
1999
Topic
Caribbean & Latin American, Classics, Short Stories (Single Author), Literary
Genre
Literary Criticism, Fiction, Literary Collections
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1.6 in
Item Weight
21.6 Oz
Item Length
8.3 in
Item Width
5.8 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
98-021217
Reviews
"A marvelous new collection of stories by one of the most remarkable writers of our century." -Richard Bernstein, The New York Times "The major work of probably the most influential Latin American writer of the century." -Michael Dirda, The Washington Post Book World "An unparalleled treasury of marvels . . . Along with a tiny cohort of peers, and seers (Kafka and Joyce come to mind), Borges is more than a stunning storyteller and a brilliant stylist; he's a mirror who reflects the spirit of his time." -Melvin Jules Bukiet, Chicago Tribune "An event worth of celebration . . . Hurley deserves our enthusiastic praise for this monumental piece of work." -William Hjortsberg, San Francisco Chronicle "Borges is the most important Spanish-language writer since Cervantes. . . . To have denied him the Nobel Prize is as bad as the case of Joyce, Proust, and Kafka." -Mario Vargas Llosa, "A marvelous new collection of stories by one of the most remarkable writers of our century." --Richard Bernstein, The New York Times "The major work of probably the most influential Latin American writer of the century." --Michael Dirda, The Washington Post Book World "An unparalleled treasury of marvels . . . Along with a tiny cohort of peers, and seers (Kafka and Joyce come to mind), Borges is more than a stunning storyteller and a brilliant stylist; he's a mirror who reflects the spirit of his time." --Melvin Jules Bukiet, Chicago Tribune "An event worth of celebration . . . Hurley deserves our enthusiastic praise for this monumental piece of work." --William Hjortsberg, San Francisco Chronicle "Borges is the most important Spanish-language writer since Cervantes. . . . To have denied him the Nobel Prize is as bad as the case of Joyce, Proust, and Kafka." --Mario Vargas Llosa, A New York Times Notable Book "A marvelous new collection of stories by one of the most remarkable writers of our century." -- The New York Times "The major work of probably the most influential Latin American writer of the century." -- The Washington Post "An unparalleled treasury of marvels . . . Along with a tiny cohort of peers, and seers (Kafka and Joyce come to mind), Borges is more than a stunning storyteller and a brilliant stylist; he's a mirror who reflects the spirit of his time." -- Chicago Tribune "This book is a real feast, prepared by one of the greatest modern confectioners of sheer fiction." -- The Seattle Times "An event worth of celebration . . . Hurley deserves our enthusiastic praise for this monumental piece of work." -- San Francisco Chronicle "Beneath Borges's paradoxical twists and inverted spells there is the deeper, ineffably human magic of all great literature." -- Los Angeles Times "Borges is the most important Spanish-language writer since Cervantes. . . . To have denied him the Nobel Prize is as bad as the case of Joyce, Proust, and Kafka." --Mario Vargas Llosa "Though so different in style, two writers have offered us an image for the next millennium: Joyce and Borges. The first designed with words what the second designed with ideas: the original, the one and only World Wide Web. The Real Thing. The rest will remain simply virtual." --Umberto Eco "It is a deep pleasure to read the Collected Fictions of Borges in Andrew Hurley's capable new version. Old favorites like 'Death and the Compass' and 'The Immortal' are revivified by Hurley. There is also a particular satisfaction in having all of the stories in one volume." --Harold Bloom "What are we to make of him? The economy of his prose, the tact of his imagery, the courage of his thought are there to be admired and emulated. In resounding the note of the marvelous last struck in English by Wells and Chesterton, in permitting infinity to enter and distort his imagination, he has lifted fiction away from the flat earth where most of our novels and short stories still take place." --John Updike "When I read a good book, I sometimes like to think I might be capable of writing something similar, but never, in my wildest dreams, could I write anything that approaches the level of cleverness and intellect and madness of Borges. I don't think anyone could." --Daniel Radcliffe, "A marvelous new collection of stories by one of the most remarkable writers of our century." -Richard Bernstein, The New York Times "The major work of probably the most influential Latin American writer of the century." -Michael Dirda, The Washington Post Book World "An unparalleled treasury of marvels . . . Along with a tiny cohort of peers, and seers (Kafka and Joyce come to mind), Borges is more than a stunning storyteller and a brilliant stylist; he's a mirror who reflects the spirit of his time." -Melvin Jules Bukiet, Chicago Tribune "An event worth of celebration . . . Hurley deserves our enthusiastic praise for this monumental piece of work." -William Hjortsberg, San Francisco Chronicle "Borges is the most important Spanish-language writer since Cervantes. . . . To have denied him the Nobel Prize is as bad as the case of Joyce, Proust, and Kafka." -Mario Vargas Llosa "When I read a good book, I sometimes like to think I might be capable of writing something similar, but never, in my wildest dreams, could I write anything that approaches the level of cleverness and intellect and madness of Borges. I don't think anyone could." -Daniel Radcliffe , "A marvelous new collection of stories by one of the most remarkable writers of our century." --Richard Bernstein, The New York Times "The major work of probably the most influential Latin American writer of the century." --Michael Dirda, The Washington Post Book World "An unparalleled treasury of marvels . . . Along with a tiny cohort of peers, and seers (Kafka and Joyce come to mind), Borges is more than a stunning storyteller and a brilliant stylist; he's a mirror who reflects the spirit of his time." --Melvin Jules Bukiet, Chicago Tribune "An event worth of celebration . . . Hurley deserves our enthusiastic praise for this monumental piece of work." --William Hjortsberg, San Francisco Chronicle "Borges is the most important Spanish-language writer since Cervantes. . . . To have denied him the Nobel Prize is as bad as the case of Joyce, Proust, and Kafka." --Mario Vargas Llosa "When I read a good book, I sometimes like to think I might be capable of writing something similar, but never, in my wildest dreams, could I write anything that approaches the level of cleverness and intellect and madness of Borges. I don't think anyone could." --Daniel Radcliffe
Dewey Edition
21
Grade From
Twelfth Grade
Volume Number
Bk. 3
Grade To
UP
Dewey Decimal
863
Table Of Content
Collected Fictions A Universal History of Iniquity (1935) Preface to the First Edition Preface to the 1954 Edition The Cruel Redeemer Lazarus Morell The Improbable Impostor Tom Castro The Widow Ching - Pirate Monk Eastman, Purveyor of Iniquities The Disinterested Killer Bill Harrigan The Uncivil Teacher of Court Etiquette Kôtsuké no Suké Hakim, the Masked Dyer of Merv Man on Pink Corner Et cetera Index of Sources Fictions (1944) The Garden of Forking Paths (1941) Foreword Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius The Approach to Al-Mu'tasim Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote The Circular Ruins The Lottery in Babylon A Survey of the Works of Herbert Quain The Library of Babel The Garden of Forking Paths Artifices (1944) Foreword Funes, His Memory The Shape of the Sword The Theme of the Traitor and the Hero Death and the Compass The Secret Miracle Three Versions of Judas The End The Cult of the Phoenix The South The Aleph (1949) The Immortal The Dead Man The Theologians Story of the Warrior and the Captive Maiden A Biography of Tadeo Isidoro Cruz (1829-1874) Emma Zunz The House of Asterion The Other Death Deutsches Requiem Avveroës' Search The Zahir The Writing of the God Ibn-Hakam al-Bokhari, Murdered in His Labyrinth The Two Kings and the Two Labyrinths The Wait The Man on the Threshold The Aleph Afterword The Maker (1960) Foreword: For Leopoldo Lugones The Maker Dreamtigers A Dialog About a Dialog Toenails Covered Mirrors Argumentum Ornithologicum The Captive The Mountebank Delia Elena San Marco A Dialog Between Dead Men The Plot A Problem The Yellow Rose The Witness Martin Fierro Mutations Parable of Cervantes and the Quixote Paradiso, XXXI, 108 Parable of the Palace Everything and Nothing Ragnarök Inferno, I, 32 Borges and I Museum On Exactitude in Science In Memoriam, J.F.K. Afterword In Praise of Darkness (1969) Foreword The Ethnographer Pedro Salvadores Legend A Prayer His End and His Beginning Brodie's Report (1970) Foreword The Interloper Unworthy The Story from Rosendo Juárez The Encounter Juan Muraña The Elderly Lady The Duel The Other Duel Guayaquil The Gospel According to Mark Brodie's Report The Book of Sand (1975) The Other Ulrikke The Congress There Are More Things The Sect of the Thirty The Night of the Gifts The Mirror and the Mask "Undr" A Weary Man's Utopia The Bribe Avelino Arredondo The Disk The Book of Sand Afterword Shakespeare's Memory (1983) August 25, 1983 Blue Tigers The Rose of Paracelsus Shakespeare's Memory A Note on the Translation Acknowledgments Notes to the Fictions
Synopsis
For the first time in English, all the fiction by the writer who has been called "the greatest Spanish-language writer of our century" collected in a single volume "An event, and cause for celebration."-- The New York Times A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition with flaps and deckle-edged paper For some fifty years, in intriguing and ingenious fictions that reimagined the very form of the short story--from his 1935 debut with A Universal History of Iniquity through his immensely influential collections Ficciones and The Aleph , the enigmatic prose poems of The Maker , up to his final work in the 1980s, Shakespeare's Memory --Jorge Luis Borges returned again and again to his celebrated themes: dreams, duels, labyrinths, mirrors, infinite libraries, the manipulations of chance, gauchos, knife fighters, tigers, and the elusive nature of identity itself. Playfully experimenting with ostensibly subliterary genres, he took the detective story and turned it into metaphysics; he took fantasy writing and made it, with its questioning and reinventing of everyday reality, central to the craft of fiction; he took the literary essay and put it to use reviewing wholly imaginary books. Bringing together for the first time in English all of Borges's magical stories, and all of them newly rendered into English in brilliant translations by Andrew Hurley, Collected Fictions is the perfect one-volume compendium for all who have long loved Borges, and a superb introduction to the master's work for all who have yet to discover this singular genius. For more than seventy-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 2,000 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators., For the first time in English, all the fiction by the writer who has been called "the greatest Spanish-language writer of our century" collected in a single volume A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition From Jorge Luis Borges's 1935 debut with The Universal History of Iniquity , through his immensely influential collections Ficciones and The Aleph , these enigmatic, elaborate, imaginative inventions display his talent for turning fiction on its head by playing with form and genre and toying with language. Together these incomparable works comprise the perfect one-volume compendium for all those who have long loved Borges, and a superb introduction to the master's work for those who have yet to discover this singular genius., From Jorge Luis Borges's 1935 debut with The Universal History of Iniquity , through his immensely influential collections Ficciones and The Aleph , these enigmatic, elaborate, imaginative inventions display his talent for turning fiction on its head by playing with form and genre and toying with language. Together these incomparable works comprise the perfect one-volume compendium for all those who have long loved Borges, and a superb introduction to the master's work for those who have yet to discover this singular genius.
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