This remarkable book by one of the great writers of our time includes essays on a proposed universal language, a justification of suicide, a refutation of time, the nature of dreams, and the intricacies of linguistic forms. Borges comments on such literary figures as Pascal, Coleridge, Cervantes, Ha[...]

"Pense en un laberinto de laberintos, en un sinuoso laberinto creciente que abarcara el pasado y el porvenir y que implicara de algun modo los astros." --Jorge Luis Borges
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"Ficciones "es quiza el libro mas reconocido de Jorge Luis Borges, compuesto por los libros "El jardin de senderos que[...]

""A veces creo que los buenos lectores son cisnes aun mas tenebrosos y singulares que los buenos autores."" --Jorge Luis Borges
En su primer libro de ficcion, Borges trabaja con biografias de ladrones y rufianes verdaderos; personajes traidores y a veces tambien heroicos. Aqui estan, entre otros[...]

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 r[...]

Short narratives probe man's soul to reveal his conflicting emotions, motives, and desires and his tortured struggle for salvation[...]

The incomparable Borges delivered these seven lectures in Buenos Aires in 1977; attendees were treated to Borges erudition on the following topics: Dante s The Divine Comedy, Nightmares, Thousand and One Dreams, Buddhism, Poetry, The Kabbalah, and Blindness.[...]

Buddhism, love, Henry James, and the tango are just a few of the topics Jorge Luis Borges, Argentina's master writer and extraordinary conversationalist, discusses in the first volume of the remarkable new series, Conversations. The eighty-four-year-old blind man's wit is unending and results in liv[...]

Jorge Luis Borges, one of the indisputably great writers of the twentieth century, was born in Buenos Aires in 1899. Never having been awarded the Nobel Prize, which his readers worldwide believed he deserved, this story writer, poet, essayist, and man of letters died at age eighty-six. This antholo[...]

This study combines the mapping of Borges's intellectual trajectory with detailed analyses of his work, particularly the stories of his two main collections, Ficciones and El Aleph. The account of the context allows the reader maximum access to the meaning and significance of the work and presents a[...]

'Through the years, a man peoples a space with images of provinces, kingdoms, mountains, bays, ships, islands, fishes, rooms, tools, stars, horses and people. Shortly before his death, he discovers that the patient labyrinth of lines traces the image of his own face'. These words, inseparably marryi[...]

Borges' erster großer Erzählband löste in den 40er Jahren eine literarische Revolution aus und gilt heute als das wichtigste einzelne Buch hispanischer Prosa des 20. Jahrhunderts - für viele das wichtigste seit >Don Quijote[...]