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Original Title:	Cuentos completos
ISBN:	0140286802 (ISBN13: 9780140286809)
Edition Language:	English

Collected Fictions

Jorge Luis Borges

Paperback | Pages: 565 pages

Rating: 4.58 | 19882 Users | 876 Reviews

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Title	:	Collected Fictions
Author	:	Jorge Luis Borges
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 565 pages
Published	:	September 30th 1999 by Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition (first published 1975)
Categories	:	Fiction. Short Stories. Classics. Literature. Fantasy. Magical Realism

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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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Ratings: 4.58 From 19882 Users | 876 Reviews

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One of the most famous lines in Spanish literature is this: Nadie lo vio desembarcar an la unanime noche: No-one saw him slip from the boat in the unanimous night...(A Note on the Translation, from Selected Stories, by Andrew Hurley)No-one saw him disembark in the unanimous night... (The Circular Ruins, from Labyrinths, translated by James E. Irby)Now Ill admit I dont know much about translation , nor do I read Spanish, but I feel sure that Hurleys translation is far from literal. Where is the

This book is the complete fiction writings of Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges. My initial disclaimer is that there is no way to do justice to a work of this magnitude in a single review, just as there is no way to do it justice after only a first reading.Anyone who has read Borges will recognize common objects that show up continually in his writings such as labyrinths, gauchos, knife fights, war, jaguars, and books (some of which are fabricated). For those with little knowlege of the history

There are few other writers whose work has lingered in my mind to the same degree as has Borges. His short stories are a metaphysical perfume whose aroma, so startling and heady upon the first inhalation, arises, unbidden, at certain points of thought or recollection, working its peculiar and powerful transformative and transfigurative memes upon the seemingly stolid principles that order our universe. The Library of Babel wrenches the brain like a sudden stop upon a dreamy hexagonal

My favorite tidbit about Borges is that he has been written into other authors' stories more than just about any other 20th century author. Neil Gaiman's Destiny and his Garden of Forking Paths, Umberto Eco's mad monk Jorge of Burgos, Zampanò from House of Leaves - and those are just the ones I've come across in my own reading. I'm sure the real Borges (should one miraculously manage to find him distinct from all the "false" Borgeses) would be amused to find that he has become an archetype. But

Borges is a literary mathematician but he has no understanding of the human heart. Still, it's impossible not to be curious what his equations create.

Fame is a form--perhaps the worst form--of incomprehension.I can recall the first time I discovered the name Borges. That marks a near singular occasion. It was 1990 and I was thoroughly enjoying my Philosophy of Religion course and curious about nihilism. This engendered another retreat to the library and there on the opening page of some text was a quotation from this strange figure. It was a few minutes later when I had culled a number of texts from stacks. Like many a reader and a number of

I've reviewed each segment of this collection separately:A Universal History of Iniquityhttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...The Garden of Forking Pathshttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...Artificeshttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...The Aleph and Other Storieshttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...In Praise of Darknesshttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...The Makerhttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...Brodie's Reporthttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...The Book of Sand