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Conversations – Volume 2
Jorge Luis Borges, Osvaldo Ferrari, Tom Boll
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Recorded during Jorge Luis Borges’s final years, this second
volume of his conversations with Osvaldo Ferrari provides a
wide-ranging reflection on the life and work of Argentina’s
master writer and favorite conversationalist. In Conversations:
Volume 2, Borges and Ferrari engage in a dialogue that is both
improvisational and frequently humorous as they touch on subjects
as diverse as epic poetry, detective fiction, Buddhism, and the
moon landing. With his signature wit, Borges offers insight into
the philosophical basis of his stories and poems, his fascination
with religious mysticism, and the idea of life as a dream. He also
dwells on more personal themes, including the influence of his
mother and father on his intellectual development, his friendships,
and living with blindness. These recollections are alive to the
passage of history, whether in the changing landscape of Buenos
Aires or a succession of political conflicts, leading Borges to
contemplate what he describes as his “South American destiny.”
The recurrent theme of these conversations, however, is a life
lived through books. Borges draws on the resources of a mental
library that embraces world literature—ancient and modern. He
recalls the works that were a constant presence in his memory and
maps his changing attitudes to a highly personal canon. In the
prologue to the volume, Borges celebrates dialogue and the
transmission of culture across time and place. These conversations
are a testimony to the supple ways that Borges explored his own
relation to numerous traditions.
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The Library of Babel
Jorge Luis Borges
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Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short
stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers,
designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith Magical books,
infinite libraries, parallel worlds, mazes, labyrinths and
philosophical paradoxes haunt these spellbinding tales by one of
the most uniquely inventive short story writers of the twentieth
century. This collection brings together many of Borges's greatest
and most beloved stories, including 'The Garden of Forking Paths',
'The Book of Sand' and 'Shakespeare's Memory'.
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Labyrinths (Paperback, New Ed)
Jorge Luis Borges; Edited by Donald Yates, James Irby; Preface by Andre Maurois
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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.
Jorge Luis Borge's Fictions introduced an entirely new voice into world literature. It is here we find the astonishing accounts of Funes, the man who can forget nothing; the French poet who recreated Don Quixote word for word; the fatal lottery in Babylon; the mysterious planet of Tlön; and the library containing every possible book in the whole universe. Here too are the philosophical detective stories and the haunting tales of Irish revolutionaries, gaucho knife fights and dreams within dreams which proved so influential (and yet impossible to imitate). This collection was eventually to bring Borges international fame; over fifty years later, it remains endlessly intriguing.
'Summer was drawing to a close, and I realized that the book was
monstrous.' Fantastical tales of mazes, puzzles, lost labyrinths
and bookish mysteries, from the unique imagination of a literary
magician. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the
pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series,
with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary,
international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to
James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to
Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and
disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep
South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest
reaches of outer space.
Revered for his magnificent works of fiction, Jorge Luis Borges
thought of himself primarily as a poet. "Poems of the Night" is a
moving collection of the great literary visionary's poetic
meditations on nighttime, darkness, and the crepuscular world of
visions and dreams, themes that speak implicitly to the blindness
that overtook Borges late in life-and yet the poems here are drawn
from the full span of Borges's career. Featuring such poems as
"History of the Night" and "In Praise of Darkness" and more than
fifty others in luminous translations by an array of distinguished
translators-among them W.S. Merwin, Christopher Maurer, Alan
Trueblood, and Alastair Reid-this volume brings to light many poems
that have never appeared in English, presenting them "en face" with
their Spanish originals.
Jorge Luis Borges has been called the greatest Spanish-language writer of our century. Now for the first time in English, all of Borges' dazzling fictions are gathered into a single volume, brilliantly translated by Andrew Hurley. From his 1935 debut with The Universal History of Iniquity, through his immensely influential collections Ficciones and The Aleph, these enigmatic, elaborate, imaginative inventions display Borges' talent for turning fiction on its head by playing with form and genre and toying with language. Together these incomparable works comprise the perfect one-volume compendium for all those who have long loved Borges, and a superb introduction to the master's work for those who have yet to discover this singular genius.
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On Writing (Paperback)
Jorge Luis Borges; Edited by Suzanne Jill Levine; Introduction by Suzanne Jill Levine
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A master class in the art of writing by one of its most
distinguished and innovative practitioners Delve into the labyrinth
of Jorge Luis Borges's thoughts on the theory and practice of
literature, and learn from one of the most influential writers of
the twentieth century not only what a writer does but also what a
writer is. For the first time ever, here is a volume that brings
together Borges's wide-ranging reflections on writers, on the
canon, on the craft of fiction and poetry, and on translation--an
ars poetica of one of the twentieth century's greatest writers.
Featuring many pieces appearing in English for the first
time--including his groundbreaking early essay on magical realism,
"Stories from Turkestan"--On Writing provides a map of both the
changes and continuities in Borges's aesthetic over the course of
his life. It is an indispensable handbook for anyone hoping to
master their own style or to witness Borges's evolution as a
writer.
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Ficciones (Paperback)
Jorge Luis Borges, Anthony Kerrigan, Anthony Bonner; Edited by Anthony Kerrigan; Translated by Anthony Bonner
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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.
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Dreamtigers (Paperback, 13th)
Jorge Luis Borges; Translated by Mildred Boyer, Harold Morland
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Dreamtigers has been heralded as one of the literary masterpieces
of the twentieth century by Mortimer J. Adler, editor of Great
Books of the Western World. It has been acknowledged by its author
as his most personal work. Composed of poems, parables, and
stories, sketches and apocryphal quotations, Dreamtigers at first
glance appears to be a sampler -- albeit a dazzling one -- of the
master's work. Upon closer examination, however, the reader
discovers the book to be a subtly and organically unified
self-revelation. Dreamtigers explores the mysterious territory that
lies between the dreams of the creative artist and the "real"
world. The central vision of the work is that of a recluse in the
"enveloping serenity" of a library, looking ahead to the time when
he will have disappeared but in the timeless world of his books
will continue his dialogue with the immortals of the past -- Homer,
Don Quixote, Shakespeare. Like Homer, the maker of these dreams is
afflicted with failing sight., Still, he dreams of tigers real and
imagined and reflects upon of a life that, above all, has been
intensely introspective, a life of calm self-possession and
absorption in the world of the imagination. At the same time he is
keenly aware of that other Borges, the public figure about whom he
reads with mixed emotions: "It's the other one, it's Borges, that
things happen to." First published in Buenos Aires in 1960 as El
Hacedor, Dreamtigers was translated into English by Mildred Boyer,
professor emerita of romance languages at the University of Texas
at Austin, and the poet Harold Morland. The late Miguel Engu?danos,
who was Centennial Professor of Spanish at Vanderbilt University,
wrote the introductionto this handsome volume, which is enhanced by
woodcuts by the renowned artist Antonio Frasconi.
Introduction by John Sturrock; Translation by Anthony Kerrigan, et al.
Universally acclaimed for his dazzling fictions, Jorge Luis Borges always considered himself to be first and foremost a poet. This collection of his poetry, the largest ever to be assembled in English (alongside the original Spanish), includes scores of pieces that have never previously been translated. Selected from a lifetime's work, the poems explore themes that preoccupied Borges: the enigma of Time and history; the metaphysics of Schopenhauer and Berkeley; the cult of his ancestors and his 'mysterious habit called Buenos Aires'; and the imagery of mirrors, mazes and swords. The brilliance of the original Spanish is in each case matched by luminous English versions by an impressive array of translators: Willis Barnstone • Alexander Coleman • Robert S. Fitzgerald • Stephen Kessler • Kenneth Krabbenhoft • Eric McHenry • W. S. Merwin • Alastair Reid • Hoyt Rogers • Mark Strand • Charles Tomlinson • Alan S. Trueblood • John Updike
Recorded during Jorge Luis Borges's final years, this second volume
of his conversations with Osvaldo Ferrari provides a wide-ranging
reflection on the life and work of Argentina's master writer and
favorite conversationalist. In Conversations: Volume 2, Borges and
Ferrari engage in a dialogue that is both improvisational and
frequently humorous as they touch on subjects as diverse as epic
poetry, detective fiction, Buddhism, and the moon landing. With his
signature wit, Borges offers insight into the philosophical basis
of his stories and poems, his fascination with religious mysticism,
and the idea of life as dream. He also dwells on more personal
themes, including the influence of his mother and father on his
intellectual development, his friendships, and living with
blindness. These recollections are alive to the passage of history,
whether in the changing landscape of Buenos Aires or a succession
of political conflicts, leading Borges to contemplate what he
describes as his "South American destiny." The recurrent theme of
these conversations, however, is a life lived through books. Borges
draws on the resources of a mental library that embraces world
literature-ancient and modern. He recalls the works that were a
constant presence in his memory and maps his changing attitudes to
a highly personal canon. In the prologue to the volume, Borges
celebrates dialogue and the transmission of culture across time and
place. These conversations are a testimony to the supple ways that
Borges explored his own relation to numerous traditions. Praise for
Borges "Borges is arguably the great bridge between modernism and
post-modernism in world literature."-David Foster Wallace
The acclaimed translation of Borges's valedictory stories, in its
first stand-alone edition
Jorge Luis Borges has been called the greatest Spanish-language
writer of the twentieth century. Now Borges's remarkable last major
story collection, "The Book of Sand," is paired with a handful of
writings from the very end of his life. Brilliantly translated,
these stories combine a direct and at times almost colloquial style
coupled with Borges's signature fantastic inventiveness. Containing
such marvelous tales as "The Congress," "Undr," "The Mirror and the
Mask," and "The Rose of Paracelsus," this edition showcases
Borges's depth of vision and superb image-conjuring power.
Borges takes us on a startling, idiosyncratic, fresh, and highly
opinionated tour of English literature, weaving together countless
cultural traditions of the last three thousand years. Borges's
lectures - delivered extempore by a man of extraordinary erudition
- bring the canon to remarkably vivid life.Now translated into
English for the first time, these lectures are accompanied by
extensive and informative notes by the Borges scholars Martin Arias
and Martin Hadis. Writing for Harper's magazine, Edgardo Krebs
describes Professor Borges: "A compilation of the twenty-five
lectures Borges gave in 1966 at the University of Buenos Aires,
where he taught English literature. Starting with the Vikings'
kennings and Beowulf and ending with Stevenson and Oscar Wilde, the
book traverses a landscape of 'precursors,' cross-cultural
borrowings, and genres of expression, all connected by Borges into
a vast interpretive web. This is the most surprising and useful of
Borges's works to have appeared posthumously."
Though universally acclaimed for his dazzling fictions, Jorge Luis Borges always considered himself first and foremost a poet. This new bilingual selection brings together some two hundred poems--the largest collection of Borges' poetry ever assembled in English, including scores of poems never previously translated. Edited by Alexander Coleman, the selection draws from a lifetime's work--from Borges' first published volume of verse, Fervor de Buenos Aires (1923), to his final work, Los Conjurados, published just a year before his death in 1986. Throughout this unique collection the brilliance of the Spanish originals is matched by luminous English versions by a remarkable cast of translators, including Robert Fitzgerald, Stephen Kessler, W. S. Merwin, Alastair Reid, Mark Strand, Charles Tomlinson, and John Updike.
Available in cloth, paper, or audio CD Through a twist of fate that
the author of Labyrinths himself would have relished, these lost
lectures given in English at Harvard in 1967-1968 by Jorge Luis
Borges return to us now, a recovered tale of a life-long love
affair with literature and the English language. Transcribed from
tapes only recently discovered, This Craft of Verse captures the
cadences, candor, wit, and remarkable erudition of one of the most
extraordinary and enduring literary voices of the twentieth
century. In its wide-ranging commentary and exquisite insights, the
book stands as a deeply personal yet far-reaching introduction to
the pleasures of the word, and as a first-hand testimony to the
life of literature. Though his avowed topic is poetry, Borges
explores subjects ranging from prose forms (especially the novel),
literary history, and translation theory to philosophical aspects
of literature in particular and communication in general. Probably
the best-read citizen of the globe in his day, he draws on a wealth
of examples from literature in modern and medieval English,
Spanish, French, Italian, German, Greek, Latin, Arabic, Hebrew, and
Chinese, speaking with characteristic eloquence on Plato, the Norse
kenningar, Byron, Poe, Chesterton, Joyce, and Frost, as well as on
translations of Homer, the Bible, and the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.
Whether discussing metaphor, epic poetry, the origins of verse,
poetic meaning, or his own "poetic creed," Borges gives a
performance as entertaining as it is intellectually engaging. A
lesson in the love of literature and in the making of a unique
literary sensibility, this is a sustained encounter with one of the
writers by whom the twentieth century will be long remembered.
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The Aleph (Paperback, New Ed)
Jorge Luis Borges; Translated by Andrew Hurley
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Although full of philosophical puzzles and supernatural surprises, the stories which make up The Aleph also contain some of Borges's most fully realized human characters. With uncanny insight he takes us inside the minds of an unrepentant Nazi, an imprisoned Mayan priest, fanatical Christian theologians, a woman plotting vengeance on her father's 'killer' and a man awaiting his assassin in a Buenos Aires guest house. This volume also contains the hauntingly brief vignettes about literary imagination and personal identity, collected in The Maker, which Borges created as failing eyesight and public fame began to undermine his sense of self.
Though best known in the English speaking world for his short fictions and poems, Borges is revered in Latin America equally as an immensely prolific and beguiling writer of non-fiction prose. In The Total Library, more than 150 of Borges' most brilliant pieces are brought together for the first time in one volume - all in superb new translations. More than a hundred of the pieces have never previously been published in English. The Total Library presents Borges at once as a deceptively self-effacing guide to the universe and as the inventor of a universe that is an indispensible guide to Borges.
In this collection of wise, witty and fascinating essays, Borges
discusses the existence (or non-existence) of Hell, the flaws in
English literary detectives, the philosophy of contradictions, and
the many translators of 1001 Nights. Varied and enthralling, these
pieces examine the very nature of our lives, from cinema and books
to history and religion. GREAT IDEAS. Throughout history, some
books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see
ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war
and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and
comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now
Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers,
radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped
make us who we are.
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Conversations – Volume 3
Jorge Luis Borges, Osvaldo Ferrari, Anthony Edkins
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Recorded during Borges’ final years, this third volume of his
conversations with Osvaldo Ferrari offers a rare glimpse
into the life and work of Argentina’s master writer and
favorite conversationalist. In Conversations: Volume 3,
Borges and Ferrari discuss subjects as diverse
as film criticism, fantastic
literature, science fiction, the Argentinian literary
tradition, and the works of writers such
as Bunyan, Wilde, Joyce, and
Yeats, among others. With his signature wit,
Borges converses on the philosophical basis of
his writing, his travels, and his fascination with religious
mysticism. He also ruminates on more personal themes,
including the influence of his family on his
intellectual development, his friendships, and living with
blindness.  The recurrent theme of these
conversations, however, is a life lived through books. Borges draws
on the resources of a mental library that embraces world
literature, both ancient and modern. He recalls the works that were
a constant presence in his memory and maps his changing attitudes
to a highly personal canon. These conversations are a testimony to
the supple ways that Borges explored his own relation to numerous
traditions—the conjunction of his life, his lucidity, and his
imagination.
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