48 results for '"Jorge Luis Borges"'

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...

For the first time in English, all the fiction by the writer who has been called “the greatest Spanish-language writer of our century” collected in a single volume“An event, and cause for celebration...

In his writing, Borges always combined high seriousness with a wicked sense of fun. Here he reveals his delight in re-creating (or making up) colorful stories from the Orient, the Islamic world, and...

"In a series of incandescent lectures given at Harvard in 1967-1968, Jorge Luis Borges explores poetic meaning, prose forms, literary history, translation theory, and philosophical aspects of...

"Revered for his magnificent works of fiction, Jorge Luis Borges thought of himself primarily as a poet. Poems of the Night is a moving collection of the great literary visionary's poetic meditations...

""Morel's Invention may be described, without exaggeration, as a perfect novel." -Octavio Paz A new translation of Adolfo Bioy Casares's metaphysical masterpiece, a marvelously plotted story of a...

Briefly describes the modern development of Latin American literature and evaluates the contributions of Cesar Vallejo, Pablo Neruda, Octavio Paz, Jorge Luis Borges, Mario Vargas Llosa, Gabriel...

“Probablemente el mayor escritor que haya nacido en Latinoamérica.”—Roberto Bolaño“Pensé en un laberinto de laberintos, en un sinuoso laberinto creciente que abarcara el pasado y el porvenir y que...

Once again, internationally acclaimed, New York Times bestselling author Carlos Ruiz Zafón creates a rich, labyrinthine tale of love, literature, passion, and revenge, set in a dark, gothic...

Across the ages, cats have provided their adopted humans with companionship, affection, mystery, and innumerable metaphors; cats cast a mirror on their beholders; cats endlessly captivate and...

A master class in the art of writing by one of its most distinguished and innovative practitioners Delve into the labyrinth of Jorge Luis Borges’s thoughts on the theory and practice of literature,...

A renowned critic, biographer, and Shakespeare scholar, Jonathan Bate provides in this Very Short Introduction a lively and engaging overview of the literature that Jorge Luis Borges called "the...

In a perfect pairing of talent, this volume blends twenty illustrations by Peter Sís with Jorge Luis Borges's 1957 compilation of 116 "strange creatures conceived through time and space by the human...

A collection of fanciful, philosophical science fictions by “one of Mexico’s finest novelists” (Vulture).The characters that populate Yuri Herrera’s surprising new story collection inhabit imagined...

A manufactured and pre-programmed serial killer; a suicidal robot; a romantic necrophiliac; and an archaeologist who feeds the perverse desires of aficionados of the apocalypse--Francisco García...

Benjamin Fondane—who was born and educated in Romania, moved as an adult to Paris, lived for a time in Buenos Aires, where he was close to Victoria Ocampo, Jorge Luis Borges’s friend and publisher,...

Handsomely Done: Aesthetics, Politics, and Media after Melville brings together leading and emerging scholars from comparative literature, critical theory, and media studies to examine Melville’s...

Ils dirent: Allons, batissons-nous une ville et une tour dont le sommet touche aux cieux; faisons-nous un nom de peur d'etre disperses sur toute la surface de la terre . On sait les themes attaches...