Name: labyrinths,selected stories & other writings
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Author: Jorge Luis Borges
ISBN: 9780811216999

portada labyrinths,selected stories & other writings

Type

Physical Book

Author

Jorge Luis Borges

Illustrated by

Donald A. Yates

James E. Irby

Publisher

New Directions Publishing Corporation

Language

English

Pages

256

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.4 x 13.4 x 2.0 cm

Weight

0.26 kg.

ISBN

0811216993

ISBN13

9780811216999

Synopsis "labyrinths,selected stories & other writings"

The groundbreaking trans-genre work of Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) has been insinuating itself into the structure, stance, and very breath of world literature for well over half a century. Multi-layered, self-referential, elusive, and allusive writing is now frequently labeled Borgesian. Umberto Eco's international bestseller, The Name of the Rose, is, on one level, an elaborate improvisation on Borges' fiction "The Library," which American readers first encountered in the original 1962 New Directions publication of Labyrinths. This new edition of Labyrinths, the classic representative selection of Borges' writing edited by Donald A. Yates and James E. Irby (in translations by themselves and others), includes the text of the original edition (as augmented in 1964) as well as Irby's biographical and critical essay, a poignant tribute by André Maurois, and a chronology of the author's life. Borges enthusiast William Gibson has contributed a new introduction bringing Borges' influence and importance into the twenty-first century.

Jorge Luis Borges

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Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges (Buenos Aires, 24 de agosto de 1899 - Ginebra, 14 de junio de 1986) fue un escritor, poeta, ensayista y traductor argentino, extensamente considerado una figura clave tanto para la literatura en habla hispana como para la literatura universal.

Sus dos libros más conocidos, Ficciones y El Aleph, publicados en los años cuarenta, son recopilaciones de cuentos conectados por temas comunes como los sueños, los laberintos, las bibliotecas, los espejos, los autores ficticios y las mitologías europeas; sus argumentos exploran ideas filosóficas relacionadas, por ejemplo, con la memoria, la eternidad, la posmodernidad y la metaficción.

La obra de Borges ha contribuido ampliamente a la literatura filosófica, al género fantástico y al posestructuralismo, e influyó profundamente en el realismo mágico de la literatura latinoamericana durante el siglo XX.

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