This is a collection, in translation, of the short, the very short
stories, and a few of the critical essays of Argentina's most
avant-garde writer. He was born of mixed Spanish, English, and
remotely Portuguese-Jewish ancestry in Buenos Aires in 1899,
inheriting as well the flux and inconsistency of a far-flung border
area of Western culture. Borges began his litarary career as a
poet, and then turned to these prose-poem stories and fables. They
display an intellectual pyrotechnical brilliance, carried to the
farthest limit. Borge's nihilism also far outstrips Sartre or
Becket, and in comparison with his elegance, invention and
universal culture, they are not much more than bourgeois humanists.
This Argentinian, with a cabalistic turn of mind, takes all
literature, philosophy and metaphysics as his domain and they
become, as Andre Maurois says in his preface, "a game of the mind".
Borges seeks to astonish and does so successfully. His readership,
while perhaps minimal, will find him exciting. (Kirkus Reviews)
Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) was a literary spellbinder whose gripping tales of magic, mystery and murder are shot through with deep philosophical paradoxes. This collection brings together many of his stories, including the celebrated 'Library of Babel', 'Garden of Forking Paths', 'Funes the Memorious' and 'Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote'. In later life, dogged by increasing blindness, Borges used essays and brief tantalizing parables to explore the enigmas of time, identity and imagination. Playful and disturbing, scholarly and seductive, his is a haunting and utterly distinctive voice.
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