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Jorge Luis Borges | 143 pages | 01 Oct 1997 | Random House USA Inc | 9780679422990 | English | New York, United States Ficciones - Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre

He returned to Buenos Aires inwhere he Ficciones to found several avant-garde literary periodicals. Inafter Ficciones fall of Juan Peron, whom he vigorously opposed, he was appointed director of the Argentine National Ficciones. Borges regularly taught and lectured throughout the United States and Europe. His ideas have been a Ficciones influence on writers throughout the Western world and on the most recent developments in literary and critical theory. A prolific writer of essays, short stories, and plays, Borges's concerns are perhaps clearest in his stories. He regarded people's endeavors to understand an incomprehensible world as fiction; hence, Ficciones fiction is metaphysical and based on what he called an esthetics of the intellect. Some critics have called him a mystic of the intellect. is considered a masterpiece. A Ficciones image in Borges's work is the labyrinth, a mental and poetic construct, that he considered a universe in miniature, which human beings build and therefore believe they control but which nevertheless traps them. In spite of Ficciones belief that people cannot understand Ficciones chaotic world, he continually attempted to do so in his writing. Much of his work deals with people's efforts to find the center of the labyrinth, symbolic of achieving understanding of their place in a mysterious Ficciones. In such later works as The Gold of the Tigers, Borges wrote of his lifelong descent into blindness and Ficciones it affected his perceptions of the world and himself Ficciones a writer. Borges died in Geneva in Ficciones Luis Borges. 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 Ficciones a compelling, bizarre, and profoundly resonant realm; we enter the fearful sphere of Pascal's abyss, the surreal and literal labyrinth Ficciones books, and the iconography of eternal return. More playful and approachable than the fictions themselves Ficciones Borges's Prologues, brief elucidations that offer the uninitiated a passageway into the whirlwind Ficciones 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 Ficciones Ficciones is to enter the Ficciones of Jorge Luis Ficciones, wherein lies Heaven, Ficciones, and everything in between. The Form of the Sword. Theme of Ficciones Traitor and Hero. . Ficciones Secret Miracle. . . . Anthony Kerrigan. Ficciones - - Google книги

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Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Want to Read saving…. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Other editions. Enlarge cover. Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Details if other :. Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. Preview — Ficciones by Ficciones Luis Borges. Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges. Anthony Kerrigan translator. Anthony Bonner translator. The seventeen pieces in Ficciones demonstrate the whirlwind Ficciones Borges's genius and mirror the precision and potency of his intellect and inventiveness, his piercing irony, his skepticism, and Ficciones obsession with fantasy. Borges sends us on a journey Ficciones a compelling, bizarre, and profoundly resonant realm; we enter the fearful sphere Ficciones Pascal's abyss, the surreal and lite The seventeen pieces in Ficciones demonstrate the whirlwind of Borges's genius and mirror the precision and potency of his intellect and inventiveness, his piercing Ficciones, his skepticism, and his obsession with fantasy. Ficciones 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. To enter the worlds in Ficciones is to enter the mind of Jorge Luis Borges, wherein lies Heaven, Hell, and everything else in between. Get A Copy. PaperbackFicciones. Published February 1st by Grove Press first published More Details Original Title. Premio Formentor de las Letras for International Other Editions Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Ficcionesplease sign up. Is it available in Spanish? ScienceFictionBookclub No it's not. It was translated into English Ficciones Borges himself, Ficciones supervised the destruction of the only copies of the original Spanish manuscripts. Ficciones typical Borges style he declared the translations "superior and more complete". How Ficciones you Ficciones the Spanish version against Ficciones English translation? I don't know how many this fares in other countries, but maybe you can set hands on a bilingual edition of Ficciones! I find Ficciones to be a cost-effective …more I don't know how many this fares in other countries, but maybe you can set hands on a bilingual Ficciones of Ficciones! I find it to be a cost-effective purchase! See all 5 questions about Ficciones…. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average Ficciones 4. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Start your review of Ficciones. I believe the most terrible thing to have happen to a reader is to lose their ability to see. Yes, with Audible now making thousands of books available to be Ficciones to Ficciones, a blind reader Ficciones not Ficciones lost the way to their magical escape tunnels to other worlds. I am a reader. I process words much differently Ficciones reading them than by Ficciones them read to Ficciones, so I do think that if I did lose my eyesight, I would be, frankly, finished as a reader. The question would be, which is very much a Borges type question, is who then would I be? The blind Borges became Homer, a lecturer who travelled the world, sharing brilliant suppositions by pairing bits of knowledge from here and there that were only made possible by his prodigious reading. These wonderful suppositions, new revelations of what makes us tick as thinking human beings, were only made possible because of all Ficciones information he had stored in his brain from So Ficciones someone says to me, why do I need to know anything when everything is on the internet? Borges had the internet in his head. I never really know how to review collections of short stories without the reviews becoming ponderously long. I Ficciones to share a few Ficciones from the stories that I find to be interesting. My notes from reading this book are vast and easily could have led to a dissertation many times longer than the original source material. Ficciones desisted. I struggled as well. I had to read and Ficciones sections of the story to make sure that I captured more of what Borges meant. I am positive, Ficciones times, that I failed to completely comprehend all that he intended for me to glean from his writing. My advice is to forge ahead, keep swimming from island to Ficciones of wonderfully written passages. Do not become overly anxious. I do not Ficciones you to get a cramp and drown in the Borges Sea. Though mirrors have been associated with Ficciones probably from the Ficciones the inventor of mirrors first Ficciones a shard on the ceiling Ficciones his bed fanciful supposition. It reasons that the present is undefined, that Ficciones future has no other reality than as present hope, that the past is no more Ficciones present memory. I Ficciones remember pondering the concept of time as a child and wondering why we are so obsessed with it when it constantly reminds us of the quick passage of our lives. We would Ficciones perpetually as young as we think ourselves to be. Poe, so ignored by his own country for most of his life. Thank goodness the Europeans and one Argentinian European in particular saw his merit. Ideas used to travel so slowly. It is almost as if Borges is anticipating the internet. Of course, as I stated earlier in this review, people must still have a wide base of knowledge in their own head to fully appreciate or apply the brilliant Ficciones of others. This would explain a lot. Ficciones is dreaming me needs to drink less alcohol or shoot less heroin because I could Ficciones use a more coherent path forward. The problem, of course, is Ficciones rarely do lent volumes return to us. The rule, clearly, for Ficciones and Ficciones collectors is to never lend Ficciones book that you expect to get back. If they were really serious about saving readers Ficciones a species, they would have us Ficciones bars in book filled zoos, encouraging us to reproduce with one another. There was a time I would have agreed with Borges. It is a nice thought that our libraries would exist beyond us, but with the current rate of libraries going extinct, especially in the United States, I would have to say Ficciones our species, or some devolved illiterate Ficciones of it, may outlive our libraries. Of course, when the internet goes black and the electrical grid goes dark, guess who will still have books to read…. Candlelight was good enough for Honest Abe. It Ficciones certainly good enough for me. I could have used this advice several times over the course of my business career, Ficciones I sold pieces of my soul. To imagine that the act is already done would have eased the moment when the loss is weighed, measured, and excised. I was thinking as I read this how useful it would be to Ficciones simulations of Ficciones choices that could show me the outcomes, not only of the first decision but the rippling effects of that decision over the next ten years. The interesting thing in watching how people make decisions is that, even if they have the percentages before them of potential success, they will still go with Ficciones fabled gut instincts, even though the simulation shows a much lower potential for success. We are a baffling species, naturally distrustful of knowledge. The capacity for greatness or horror exists Ficciones all of us. To celebrate one is to celebrate all. To condemn one for an act is really, in many ways, condemning us all. If only Ficciones Eastwood was still making Dirty Harry movies. We can Ficciones hope, right? I hope Borges accomplished most of what he wanted before the final swing of the glittering scythe. I do Ficciones to encourage everyone that, if there is something you know you should be Ficciones, you should get to it. If you Ficciones been putting off asking the libidinous hope springs eternal librarian out on a date, do it. If you are supposed to be painting, writing, or starting your own business, move the time table up. The sand in the hour glass is flowing faster than you think, and there will be times when it inexplicably speeds up.