| Description |
xxiii, 256 pages ; 21 cm. |
| Series |
New Directions paperbook ; 1066 |
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New Directions paperbook ; 1066.
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| Note |
"This volume was first published clothbound by New Directions in 1962; it was issued in an augmented edition as New Directions Paperbook 186 in 1964."--T.p. verso. |
| Contents |
Fictions. Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius ; The garden of forking paths ; The lottery in Babylon ; Pierre Menard, author of the Quixote ; The circular ruins ; The library of Babel ; Funes the Memorious ; The shape of the sword ; Theme of the traitor and the hero ; Death and the compass ; The secret miracle ; Three versions of Judas ; The sect of the Phoenix ; The immortal ; The theologians ; Story of the warrior and the captive ; Emma Zunz ; The house of Asterion ; Deutsches Requiem ; Averroes' search ; The Zahir ; The waiting ; The god's script -- Essays. The Argentine writer and tradition ; The wall and the books ; The fearful sphere of Pascal ; Partial magic in the Quixote ; Valéry as symbol ; Kafka and his precursors ; Avatars of the tortoise ; The mirror of enigmas ; A note on (toward) Bernard Shaw ; A new refutation of time -- Parables. Inferno, 1, 32 ; Paradiso, XXXI, 108 ; Ragnarök ; Parable of Cervantes and the Quixote ; The witness ; A problem ; Borges and I ; Everything and nothing -- Elegy -- Chronology. |
| Subject |
Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986 -- Translations into English.
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Argentina -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
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Magic realism (Literature)
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| Genre/Form |
Magic realist fiction.
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| Added Author |
Yates, Donald A.
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Irby, James East, 1931-
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| Added Title |
Works. Selections. English. 2007
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| ISBN |
9780811216999 alkaline paper |
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0811216993 alkaline paper |
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