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Ficciones

AUTHOR Borges, Jorge Luis
PUBLISHER Turtleback (01/01/2019)
PRODUCT TYPE Hardcover (Prebound)

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"Pens en un laberinto de laberintos, en un sinuoso laberinto creciente que abarcara el pasado y el porvenir y que implicara de algn modo los astros". --Jorge Luis Borges

Ficciones es quiz el libro ms reconocido de Jorge Luis Borges, compuesto por los libros El jardn de senderos que se bifurcan y Artificios, ambos considerados piezas fundamentales del universo borgiano. Entre los cuentos que aqu se renen hay algunos de corte policial como "La muerte y la brjula", la historia de un detective que investiga el asesinato de un rabino; otros sobre libros imaginarios como "Tln, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius", una extraordinaria reflexin sobre la literatura y su influencia en el mundo fsico; y muchos pertenecientes al gnero fantstico como "El Sur", acaso su mejor relato, en palabras del mismo autor.

Fascinante y sorprendente, Ficciones le brinda al lector un mundo de reflexiones sobre las convenciones de lectura y el modo de entender la realidad.

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Jorge Luis Borges has been called the greatest Spanish-language writer of our century.

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 Borges' talent for turning fiction on its head by playing with form and genre and toying with language. Together these incomparable works comprise the perfect 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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ISBN-13: 9781663607485
ISBN-10: 1663607486
Binding: Hardback or Cased Book (Library Binding)
Content Language: Spanish
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Product Dimensions: 5.20 x 0.94 x 7.95 inches
Weight: 0.70 pound(s)
Country of Origin: US
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Fiction | Short Stories (single author)
Fiction | Classics
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Guided Reading Level: Not Applicable
Dewey Decimal: FIC
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First published in 1945, his "Ficciones" compressed several centuries' worth of philosophy and poetry into 17 tiny, unclassifiable pieces of prose. Borges offered up diabolical tigers, imaginary encyclopedias, ontological detective stories, and scholarly commentaries on nonexistent books, and in the process exploded all previous notions of genre.
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"Pens en un laberinto de laberintos, en un sinuoso laberinto creciente que abarcara el pasado y el porvenir y que implicara de algn modo los astros". --Jorge Luis Borges

Ficciones es quiz el libro ms reconocido de Jorge Luis Borges, compuesto por los libros El jardn de senderos que se bifurcan y Artificios, ambos considerados piezas fundamentales del universo borgiano. Entre los cuentos que aqu se renen hay algunos de corte policial como "La muerte y la brjula", la historia de un detective que investiga el asesinato de un rabino; otros sobre libros imaginarios como "Tln, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius", una extraordinaria reflexin sobre la literatura y su influencia en el mundo fsico; y muchos pertenecientes al gnero fantstico como "El Sur", acaso su mejor relato, en palabras del mismo autor.

Fascinante y sorprendente, Ficciones le brinda al lector un mundo de reflexiones sobre las convenciones de lectura y el modo de entender la realidad.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

Jorge Luis Borges has been called the greatest Spanish-language writer of our century.

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 Borges' talent for turning fiction on its head by playing with form and genre and toying with language. Together these incomparable works comprise the perfect 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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Author: Borges, Jorge Luis
Jorge Luis Borges(1899-1986), Argentine writer, poet and philosopher, is best known for his books"Ficciones"and"The Aleph."
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