Ficciones
Contributors: Anthony Kerrigan (Editor); Anthony Bonner (Translator)
Edition: 1st Evergreen edition (30)
Publisher: Grove Weidenfeld
Published: 1983?
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 174
ISBN-13: 9780802130303
Copyright date: 1962
Subjects: Novels, other prose & writers; Fiction - General; Spanish; Fantasy; Short Stories (single author); Fiction / Short Stories (single author); Fiction
First sentence: I owe the discovery of Uqbar to the conjunction of a mirror and an encyclopedia.
Description: 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.
Table of contents: title: INTRODUCTION; title: PART ONE: THE GARDEN OF FORKING PATHS; title: Prologue; title: Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius; title: The Approach to A1-Mu'tasim; title: Pierre Menard, Author of Don Quixote; title: The Circular Ruins; title: The Babylon Lottery; title: An Examination of the Work of Herbert Quain; title: The Library of Babel; title: The Garden of Forking Paths; title: PART Two: ARTIFICES; title: Prologue; title: Funes, the Memorious; title: The Form of the Sword; title: Theme of the Traitor and Hero; title: Death and the Compass; title: The Secret Miracle; title: Three Versions of Judas; title: The End; title: The Sect of the Phoenix; title: The South