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Book of sand ; and, Shakespeare's memory / Jorge Luis Borges ; translated with an introduction by Andrew Hurley.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Furness Shakespeare Library (Van Pelt 628) PQ7797.B635 L513 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986.
- Series:
- Penguin classics
- Standardized Title:
- Libro de arena. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986--Translations into English.
- Borges, Jorge Luis.
- Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986.
- Genre:
- Short stories.
- Translations into English.
- Translations.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 152 pages ; 20 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Penguin Books, 2007.
- Summary:
- Borges's remarkable last major story collection, "The Book of Sand," is paired with a handful of writings from the very end of his life. Brilliantly translated, these stories combine a direct and at times almost colloquial style coupled with Borgesas signature fantastic inventiveness.
- Contents:
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Introduction / Andrew Hurley
- The book of sand (1975)
- The other
- Ulrikke
- The congress
- There are more things
- The sect of the thirty
- The night of the gifts
- The mirror and the mask
- "Undr"
- A weary man's utopia
- The bribe
- Avelino Arredondo
- The disk
- The book of sand
- Shakespeare's memory (1983)
- August 25, 1983
- Blue tigers
- The rose of Paracelsus
- Shakespeare's memory.
- Notes:
- Translation of: Libro de arena and Memoria de Shakespeare.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.
- Contains:
- Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986. Memoria de Shakespeare. English
- Shakespeare's memory.
- ISBN:
- 0143105299
- 9780143105299
- OCLC:
- 173485305
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