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Jorge Luis Borges
A dual-language volume of poems on darkness and light-many appearing in English for the first time-by one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century
Revered for his magnificent works…
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On Mysticism, available in English for the first time, brings together the meditations on the mystical realm that permeate much of Borges’s work.
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A pocket-sized Pearls edition of some of Borges’ best fictions and essays.
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The complete sonnets of one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century-in English and Spanish This landmark collection brings together for the first time in any language all of…
In the tradition of such writing guides as The Writing Life by Annie Dillard, On Writing is a master class in the art by one of its most distinguished and…
Now for the first time in English comes Borges’s literary guide to his native–and beloved–Argentina and Buenos Aires, 128 pp.
Stories deal with an unusual garden, an enormous library, authorship, language, memory, philosophy, and the art of writing.
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In a perfect pairing of talent, this volume blends 20 illustrations by Sis with Borges’ 1957 compilation of 116 strange creatures conceived through time and space by the human imagination…
After almost a half a century of scrupulous devotion to his art, Jorge Luis Borges personally compiled this anthology of his work–short stories, essays, poems, and brief mordant sketches, which…
This collection of poems, parables, and stories explores the mysterious territory that lies between the dreams of the creative artist and the real world.
The most popular anthology of Jorge Luis Borges’s short stories, Fictions is a wildly original and influential collection of fantastic tales
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These translations originally published in: Collected fictions. New York: Viking, 1998.
This unique volume presents a Borges almost entirely unknown to American readers: his extraordinary non-fiction prose. Borges’ unlimited curiosity and almost superhuman erudition become, in his essays, reviews, lectures, and…
Includes the stories The Congress , Undr , The Mirror and the Mask , August 25, 1983 , Blue Tigers , The Rose of Paracelsus and Shakespeare’s Memory .
Lets you enter timeless worlds, where the ideal and the abstract challenge reality; where philosophical paradoxes and endless possibilities abound, and wisps of dream and magic are layered in eternal…
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Alberto Manguel
Part memoir, part biography, and a celebration of the living quality of literature, the author’s reflections on the works of Borges, and of the writers he admired, form a portrait…
A collection of short stories with such themes as dreams, labyrinths, mirrors, infinite libraries, the manipulations of chance, gaucho knife-fighters, transparent tigers and the elusive nature of identity itself.
A collection of short stories and essays showcasing one of Latin America’s influential and imaginative writers. It was a literary spellbinder whose tales of magic, mystery and murder are shot…
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 incomparable Borges delivered these seven lectures in Buenos Aires in 1977; attendees were treated to Borges’ erudition on the following topics: Dante’s The Divine Comedy, Nightmares, Thousand and One…
In honor of the centenary of the birth of Borges, this collection of his fiction has been gathered into a single volume. An unparalleled treasury of marvels. – Chicago Tribune.
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…
