Tlon Uqbar Orbis Tertius

Author : Jorge Luis Borges
Publisher : Erin, Ont. : Porcupine's Quill
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius written by Jorge Luis Borges and published by Erin, Ont. : Porcupine's Quill. This book was released on 1983 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: `Here is a handsome edition of one of Borges' ficciones, in a translation first published in Labyrinths in 1962. It's an important story in the Borges' canon, incorporating most of the author's philosophical and esthetic preoccupations in a typically brief compass. With great solemnity and a convincing array of scholarly detail (including annotated references to imaginary books and articles), Borges contocts a fable of an alternate world and its infiltration of our own. The reality of Tlon is idealist: material objects have no existence; language has no nouns; its principal discipline is psychology, since its inhabitants see the universe as nothing but a series of mental processes. A series of 24 illustrations accompanies the text. Their disturbing resemblances to our reality make them appropriate reflections of Borges's imaginative constructs.' -- The Kingston Whig-Standard

Author : Jorge Luis Borges
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811200127
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Labyrinths written by Jorge Luis Borges and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1964 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forty short stories and essays have been selected as representative of the Argentine writer's metaphysical narratives.

Author : Jorge Luis Borges
Publisher : Penguin Modern Classics
ISBN 13 : 9780141184845
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Labyrinths written by Jorge Luis Borges and published by Penguin Modern Classics. This book was released on 2000 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jorge Luis Borges's Labyrinths is a collection of short stories and essays showcasing one of Latin America's most influential and imaginative writers. This Penguin Modern Classics edition is edited by Donald A. Yates and James E. Irby, with an introduction by James E. Irby and a preface by André Maurois. Jorge Luis Borges was a literary spellbinder whose 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', whose infinite shelves contain every book that could ever exist, 'Funes the Memorious' the tale of a man fated never to forget a single detail of his life, and 'Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote', in which a French poet makes it his life's work to create an identical copy of Don Quixote. In later life, dogged by increasing blindness, Borges used essays and brief tantalising parables to explore the enigma of time, identity and imagination. Playful and disturbing, scholarly and seductive, his is a haunting and utterly distinctive voice. Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. A poet, critic and short story writer, he received numerous awards for his work including the 1961 International Publisher's Prize (shared with Samuel Beckett). He has a reasonable claim, along with Kafka and Joyce, to be one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. If you enjoyed Labyrinths, you might like Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis and Other Stories, also available in Penguin Modern Classics. 'His is the literature of eternity'Peter Ackroyd, The Times 'One of the towering figures of literature in Spanish'James Woodall, Guardian 'Probably the greatest twentieth-century author never to win the Nobel Prize'Economist

Author : Max Ubelaker Andrade
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271084065
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Borges Beyond the Visible written by Max Ubelaker Andrade and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2020-05-11 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Borges Beyond the Visible presents radically new readings of some of Jorge Luis Borges’s most celebrated stories. Max Ubelaker Andrade shows how Borges employed intertextual puzzles to transform his personal experiences with blindness, sexuality, and suicide while allowing readers to sense the transformative power of their own literary imaginations. In readings of “Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius,” “El Aleph,” and “El Zahir,” Ubelaker Andrade argues that Borges, considering his own impending blindness, borrowed from Islam’s prohibitions on visual representation to create a “literary theology”—a religion focused on the contradictions of literary existence and the unstable complexities of a visual world perceived without everyday sight. Embracing these contradictions allowed Borges to transform his relationships with sex, sexuality, and family in multilayered stories such as “Emma Zunz,” “La intrusa,” and “El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan.” Yet these liberating transformations, sometimes offered to the reader as a paradoxical “gift of death,” are complicated by “La salvación por las obras,” a story built around Borges’s relationship with a suicidal reader and the woman to whom they were both connected. The epilogue presents “Místicos del Islam,” an unpublished essay draft by Borges, as a key source of insight into an irreverent, iconoclastic writing practice based on a profound faith in fiction. Compelling and clear, Borges Beyond the Visible is a revelatory examination of the work of one of the most influential authors of the twentieth century. It opens up exciting areas of inquiry for scholars, students, and readers of Borges.

Author : Beatriz Sarlo
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 9780860916352
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jorge Luis Borges written by Beatriz Sarlo and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 1993 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sarlo explores Argentine nuances and traditions through brilliant close readings of specific stories. She shows how even Borges's most fantastic tales deal with philosophical and moral problems concerning the fate of individual men and women and their relationships to wider society.

Author : Jorge Luis Borges
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811214001
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Everything and Nothing written by Jorge Luis Borges and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Some of the most witty, uncannily original short fiction in Western Literature."--The New Yorker

Author : Jorge Luis Borges
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius written by Jorge Luis Borges and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Norman Thomas di Giovanni
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007524382
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Georgie and Elsa: Jorge Luis Borges and His Wife: The Untold Story written by Norman Thomas di Giovanni and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2014-05-08 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of Borges, by his translator.

Author : Jorge Luis Borges
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141195819
Total Pages : 73 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Widow Ching--Pirate written by Jorge Luis Borges and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2011-02-15 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'On days of combat, the crew would mix gunpowder with their liquor' Borges became famous as a writer of short stories that contained new realities: elaborately conceived, ingenious and gamesome pr�cis of impossible worlds or imaginary books. In these five stories there is danger on the high seas, an ungracious teacher of etiquette and an encyclopaedia of an unknown planet � and Borges's unique imagination and intellect plays throughout. This book includes The Widow Ching-Pirate, Monk Eastman, Purveyor of Iniquities, The Uncivil Teacher of Court Etiquette K�tsuk�, Tl�n, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius, Pierre Menard and Author of the Quixote.

Author : Jorge Luis Borges
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 22 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius, 1983 written by Jorge Luis Borges and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: