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| Genre/Form: | Fictional Work Essay short stories essays parables Essays Fiction Parables Short stories Translations Mystery and detective fiction Nouvelles Romans Essais Paraboles Translations into English |
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| Named Person: | Jorge Luis Borges; Jorge Luis Borges |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Jorge Luis Borges; Donald A Yates; James East Irby; André Maurois; Sherry Mangan |
| ISBN: | 0811200124 9780811200127 |
| OCLC Number: | 260942 |
| Notes: | Short stories, essays and parables. |
| Description: | xxiii, 260 pages ; 21 cm |
| Contents: | Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis tertius -- The Garden of Forking Paths -- The lottery in Babylon -- Pierre Menard, author of the Quixote -- The circular ruins -- The library of Babel -- Funes the Memorious -- The shape of the sword -- Theme of the traitor and the hero -- Death and the compass -- The sweet miracle -- Three versions of Judas -- The Sect of the Phoenix -- The immortal -- The theologians -- Story of the warrior and the captive -- Emma Zunz -- The House of Asterion -- Deutsches requiem -- Averroes' search -- The Zahir -- The waiting -- The god's script -- The Argentine writer and tradition -- The wall and the books -- The fearful sphere of Pascal -- Partial magic in the Quixote -- Valéry as symbol -- Kafka and his precursors -- Avatars of the tortoise -- The mirror of enigmas -- A note on (toward) Bernard Shaw -- A new refutation of time -- Inferno, 1, 32 -- Paradiso, XXXI, 108 -- Ragnarök -- Parable of Cervantes and the Quixote -- The witness -- A problem -- Borges and I -- Everything and nothing -- Elegy. |
| Series Title: | New Directions paperbook, 186. |
| Other Titles: | Works. |
| Responsibility: | Jorge Luis Borges ; edited by Donald A. Yates & James E. Irby ; preface by André Maurois. |
Abstract:
Forty short stories and essays have been selected as representative of the Argentine writer's metaphysical narratives.
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