| Ficciones Contributor(s): Borges, Jorge Luis (Author), Kerrigan, Anthony (Editor), Bonner, Anthony (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0802130305 ISBN-13: 9780802130303 Publisher: Grove Press OUR PRICE: $16.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 1994 Annotation: 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. For to enter the worlds in "Ficciones" is to enter the mind of Jorge Luis Borges, wherein lie Heaven, Hell, and everything in between. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Magical Realism |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 62013054 |
| Lexile Measure: 890 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.3" W x 8.1" (0.35 lbs) 180 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Latin America |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The seventeen pieces in Ficciones demonstrate 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. 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. To enter the worlds in Ficciones is to enter the mind of Jorge Luis Borges, wherein lies Heaven, Hell, and everything in between. |