Ficciones

by Borges, Jorge Luis

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Title Statements

Full title :Ficciones / Jorge Luis Borges ; edited and with an introduction by Anthony Kerrigan.

Summary

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.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©1962

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Grove Press, Inc
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:©1962

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The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (174 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780802190734, 0802190731
oclc:on1206360591
LC Classification:PQ7797.B635
Dewey Decimal:863

Subjects

Alemanes Allemands -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. --… Argentina Argentina -- Fiction. -- Social life an… Argentine fiction -- 20th century Argentine fiction -- Translations into … Artentina -- Fiction. -- Social life an… Babylon (Extinct city) -- Fiction Babylone (Ville ancienne) -- Romans, no… Borges, Jorge Luis Cuentos argentinos Fiction Filosofía -- Gran Bretaña Germans Germans -- Fiction. -- Argentina Inde -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. -- Reli… India India -- Fiction. -- Religion Iraq -- Babylon (Extinct city) Maneras y costumbres