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Ficciones / Jorge Luis Borges ; edited and with an introduction by Anthony Kerrigan.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Ficciones. English
- Language:
- English
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986--Translations into English.
- Borges, Jorge Luis.
- Short stories, Argentine--Translations into English.
- Short stories, Argentine.
- Manners and customs--Fiction.
- Manners and customs.
- Argentina--Social life and customs--Fiction.
- Argentina.
- Germans--Argentina--Fiction.
- Germans.
- Philosophy, English--Fiction.
- Philosophy, English.
- India--Religion--Fiction.
- India.
- Babylon (Extinct city)--Fiction.
- Babylon (Extinct city).
- Short stories, Argentina--20th century--Translations into English.
- Spanish fiction--20th century--Translations into English.
- Artentina--Social life and customs--Fiction.
- Argentine fiction--20th century.
- Science fiction, Argentine.
- Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986.
- Religion.
- Iraq--Babylon (Extinct city).
- Genre:
- Short stories, Argentine.
- Science fiction, Argentine.
- Short stories, Argentine -- Translations into English.
- Argentine fiction -- 20th century -- Translations into English.
- Science fiction, Argentine -- Translations into English.
- Translations.
- Fiction.
- Short stories.
- Science fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Adams, Mark B. (donor) (Adams Collection copies)
- Physical Description:
- 174 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Grove Press, Inc., [1962]
- Summary:
- 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 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. More playful and approachable than the fictions themselves are Borges's Prologues, brief elucidations that offer the uninitiated a passageway into the whirlwind of 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 in Ficciones is to enter the mind of Jorge Luis Borges, wherein lies Heaven, Hell, and everything in between.
- Contents:
- Part one. The garden of forking paths: Prologue
- Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius / translated by Alastair Reid
- The approach to Al-Mu'tasim / translated by Anthony Kerrigan
- Pierre Menard, author of Don Quixote / translated by Anthony Bonner
- The circular ruins / translated by Anthony Bonner
- The Babylon lottery / translated by Anthony Kerrigan
- An examination of the work of Herbert Quain / translated by Anthony Kerrigan
- The library of Babel / translated by Anthony Kerrigan
- The garden of forking paths / translated by Helen Temple and Ruthven Todd
- Part two. Artifices: Prologue
- Funes, the memorious / translated by Anthony Kerrigan
- The form of the sword / translated by Anthony Kerrigan
- Theme of the traitor and hero / translated by Anthony Kerrigan
- Death and the compass / translated by Anthony Kerrigan
- The secret miracle / translated by Anthony Kerrigan
- Three versions of Judas / translated by Anthony Kerrigan
- The end / translated by Anthony Kerrigan
- The sect of the Phoenix / translated by Anthony Kerrigan
- The South / translated by Anthony Kerrigan.
- Notes:
- "Translated from the Spanish, ©1956 by Emecé Editores, S.A., Buenos Aires"--Title page verso.
- Local Notes:
- Adams Collection copies presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Dr. Mark B. Adams.
- Adams Collection copy 1 is 48th printing, possibly May 2003. Copy 2 is 34th printing, Possibly january 1994.
- Contains:
- Contains: Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986. Ficciones. English (Kerrigan, Reid, Bonner, Temple, and Todd)
- ISBN:
- 0802130305
- 9780802130303
- 0394172442
- 9780394172446
- 0802140750
- 9780802140753
- OCLC:
- 642715
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