E.P. Dutton & Co, 1976. — 143 p. — ISBN: 0525080473 (ISBN13: 9780525080473) Norman Thomas di Giovanni (translator) “In a series of short, sly, ironic essays...[the authors] invert, deflate, and dismantle most of the aesthetic fads of our time...Domecq is a seedy literary journalist...a pompous, brainless critic of every art in sight. He is hilariously awful and a great...
New York: Dutton, 1981. — 160 p. — ISBN: 0525204806 (ISBN13: 9780525204800) Norman Thomas di Giovanni (translator) The first fruit of the collaboration of Borges and his long-time friend Bioy-Casares, Six Problems for Don Isidro Parodi appeared originally under the pseudonym of H. Bustos Domecq. "Bugsy's" prose style is not quite the style of either of the collaborators, but in...
Viking Books , 1988. — 384 p. — ISBN: 0670823937 (ISBN13: 9780670823932) A collection of fantasy stories which includes stories by James Joyce, Lewis Carroll, Ursula Leguin, Ray Bradbury, Oscar Wilde J.G Ballard, Franz Kafka...
Penguin, 1975. — 137 p. — ISBN: 0140039597 (ISBN13: 9780140039597) Norman Thomas di Giovanni (translator) In his writing, Borges always combined high seriousness with a wicked sense of fun. Here he reveals his delight in re-creating (or making up) colorful stories from the Orient, the Islamic world, and the Wild West, as well as his horrified fascination with knife fights,...
Jorge Luis Borges has been called the greatest Spanish-language writer of our century. Now for the first time in English, all of Borges' dazzling fictions are gathered into a single volume, brilliantly translated by Andrew Hurley. From his 1935 debut with The Universal History of Iniquity, through his immensely influential collections Ficciones and The Aleph, these enigmatic,...
Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition, 1999. — 565 p. — ISBN: 0140286802 (ISBN13: 9780140286809) Andrew Hurley (Translator) Jorge Luis Borges has been called the greatest Spanish-language writer of our century. Now for the first time in English, all of Borges' dazzling fictions are gathered into a single volume, brilliantly translated by Andrew Hurley. From his 1935 debut with The...
Bantam Books, 1973. — 155 p. — ISBN: 0553077651 (ISBN13: 9780553077650) Norman Thomas di Giovanni (translator) At the age of seventy, after a gap of twenty years, Jorge Luis Borges returned to writing short stories. In Brodie's Report, he returned also to the style of his earlier years with its brutal realism, nightmares & bloodshed. Many of these stories, including Unworthy &...
E.P. Dutton & Co, 1964. — 96 p. — ISBN10: 052547269X, ISBN13: 9780525472698 Dreamtigers has been heralded as one of the literary masterpieces of the twentieth century by Mortimer J. Adler, editor of Great Books of the Western World. It has been acknowledged by its author as his most personal work. Composed of poems, parables, and stories, sketches and apocryphal quotations,...
E.P. Dutton & Co, 1984. — 173 p. — ISBN10: 0525241647, ISBN13: 978-0525241645 Tells the story of an Argentinian poet, who may also represent Borges himself, and discusses the limits of literature
Grove Press, 1994. — 174 p. — ISBN: 0802130305 (ISBN13: 9780802130303) Anthony Kerrigan (translator), Anthony Bonner (translator) Originally published in New York in 1962. This first Penguin edition is from the augmented edition published in New York in 1964. The seventeen pieces in Ficciones demonstrate the whirlwind of Borges's genius and mirror the precision and potency of...
Allen Lane, 1975. — 142 p. — ISBN: 0713909463 (ISBN13: 9780713909463) Norman Thomas di Giovanni (translator) Poems and prose presented in both English and Spanish evoke Borges' impressions of blindness and death.
Allen Lane, 1972. — 348 p. — ISBN10: 0713901411, ISBN13: 9780713901412 Norman Thomas di Giovanni (translator) During his life, Jorge Luis Borges wore many hats. He was, variously, a poet, an essayist, a short-story writer, a librarian, and, for a short time, a Poultry inspector. Born in Argentina in 1899, he lived for several years in Europe before eventually returning home to...
Melville House, 2013. — 192 p. — ISBN: 1612192041 (ISBN13: 9781612192048) Kit Maude (Translation), Gloria Lopez Lecube (Editor) “Believe me: the benefits of blindness have been greatly exaggerated. If I could see, I would never leave the house, I’d stay indoors reading the many books that surround me.” —Jorge Luis Borges Days before his death, Borges gave an intimate interview...
The classic by Latin America's finest writer of the twentieth century—a true literary sensation—with an introduction by cyber-author William Gibson. The groundbreaking trans-genre work of Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) has been insinuating itself into the structure, stance, and very breath of world literature for well over half a century. Multi-layered,...
Penguin, 1970. — 297 p. — ISBN: 0140029818 (ISBN13: 9780140029819) Donald A. Yates (editor), James East Yerby (editor), André Maurois (preface) Originally published in New York in 1962. This first Penguin edition is from the augmented edition published in New York in 1964. Fictions. Tiön, uqbar, Orbis Tertius The garden of forking paths The lottery in Babylon Pierre Menard,...
University of Texas Press, 1975. — 223 p. — ISBN: 0292760027 (ISBN13: 9780292760028) This remarkable book by one of the great writers of our time includes essays on a proposed universal language, a justification of suicide, a refutation of time, the nature of dreams, and the intricacies of linguistic forms. Borges comments on such literary figures such as Pascal, Coleridge,...
New Directions, 2013. — 306 p. — ISBN: 0811218759 (ISBN13: 9780811218757) Katherine Silver (Translator), Martin Arias (Editor), Martin Hadis (Editor) In English at last, Borges’s erudite and entertaining lectures on English literature from Beowulf to Oscar Wilde Writing for Harper’s Magazine, Edgardo Krebs describes Professor Borges: “A compilation of the twenty-five lectures...
A compilation of Borges short fiction utilizing the translations of Norman Thomas di Giovanni whenever possible. Includes works from: The Aleph & Other Stories A History of Infamy The Book of Sand In Praise of Darkness Doctor Brodie's Report The Garden of Branching Paths Labyrinths The Book of Imaginary Beings
A Bantam Book, 1971. - 211 p. Full of philosophical puzzles and supernatural surprises, these stories contain some of Borges’s most fully realized human characters. With uncanny insight he takes us inside the minds of an unrepentant Nazi, an imprisoned Mayan priest, fanatical Christian theologians, a woman plotting vengeance on her father’s killer, and a man awaiting his...
The Book of Imaginary Beings is Borges’s whimsical compendium of more than one hundred of the strange creatures conceived down through history by the human imagination. This unique contribution to fantasy literature ranges widely across the world’s mythologies and literatures to bring together the fantastical inventions drawn from the Kabbalah, Homer, Confucius, Shakespeare,...
Penguin Books, 1971. — 186 p. Collection of short stories translated from the Spanish El libore arena, and poems The Gold of the Tigers from El oro de los tigres and The Unending Rose from La rosa profunda.
Penguin Mini Modern Classics, 2011. — 75 p. — ISBN: 0141195819 (ISBN13: 9780141195810) Borges became famous as a writer of short stories that contained new realities: elaborately conceived, ingenious and gamesome précis of impossible worlds or imaginary books. In these five stories there is danger on the high seas, an ungracious teacher of etiquette and an encyclopedia of an...
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