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Author Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986, author.

Title Ficciones / Jorge Luis Borges ; edited and with an introduction by Anthony Kerrigan.

Publication Info. New York : Grove Press, Inc., [1962]
©1962

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 Manchester, Main Library - Basement Materials  BORGES, JORGE LUIS    Check Shelf
 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  868.9 B732F    Check Shelf
 Wethersfield Public Library - Adult Fiction  FIC BORGES    Check Shelf
Description 174 pages ; 21 cm
Short stories.
Note "Translated from the Spanish, ©1956 by Emecé Editores, S.A., Buenos Aires"--Title page verso.
Contents Part one. The garden of forking paths: Prologue -- Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius / translated by Alastair Reid -- The approach to Al-Mu'tasim / translated by Anthony Kerrigan -- Pierre Menard, author of Don Quixote / translated by Anthony Bonner -- The circular ruins / translated by Anthony Bonner -- The Babylon lottery / translated by Anthony Kerrigan -- An examination of the work of Herbert Quain / translated by Anthony Kerrigan -- The library of Babel / translated by Anthony Kerrigan -- The garden of forking paths / translated by Helen Temple and Ruthven Todd -- Part two. Artifices: Prologue -- Funes, the memorious / translated by Anthony Kerrigan -- The form of the sword / translated by Anthony Kerrigan -- Theme of the traitor and hero / translated by Anthony Kerrigan -- Death and the compass / translated by Anthony Kerrigan -- The secret miracle / translated by Anthony Kerrigan -- Three versions of Judas / translated by Anthony Kerrigan -- The end / translated by Anthony Kerrigan -- The sect of the Phoenix / translated by Anthony Kerrigan -- The South / translated 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.
Subject Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986 -- Translations into English.
Short stories, Argentine -- Translations into English.
Manners and customs -- Fiction.
Argentina -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
Germans -- Argentina -- Fiction.
Philosophy, English -- Fiction.
India -- Religion -- Fiction.
Babylon (Extinct city) -- Fiction.
Cuentos argentinos.
Alemanes.
Filoso̕fa -- Gran Bretąa.
Relig̤in.
Short stories, Argentine. (OCoLC)fst01117090
Germans. (OCoLC)fst00942100
Manners and customs. (OCoLC)fst01007815
Philosophy, English. (OCoLC)fst01060950
Religion. (OCoLC)fst01093763
Argentina. (OCoLC)fst01205614
India. (OCoLC)fst01210276
Iraq -- Babylon (Extinct city) (OCoLC)fst01896933
Genre/Form Magical realism (Literature)
Magic realist fiction.
Short stories, Argentine.
Science fiction, Argentine.
Translations. (OCoLC)fst01423791
Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
Science fiction.
Fiction.
Added Author Kerrigan, Anthony, editor, translator.
Reid, Alastair, 1926-2014, translator.
Bonner, Anthony, translator.
Temple, Helen, 1914- translator.
Todd, Ruthven, 1914-1978, translator.
Contains (expression): Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986. Ficciones. English (Kerrigan, Reid, Bonner, Temple, and Todd)
Added Title Ficciones. English
ISBN 0802130305
9780802130303
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