Forfatter fødeår: 1899
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A collection of short stories and essays showcasing one of Latin America's influential and imaginative writers. It was a literary spellbinder whose tales of magic, mystery and murder are shot through with deep philosophical paradoxes.
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Offers accounts of 'Funes the Memorious', the man who can forget nothing; 'Pierre Menard, Author of the "Quixote"', who recreates Miguel de Cervantes' epic word-for-word; a society run on the basis of an all-encompassing game of chance in 'The Lottery in Babylon'.
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A collection of short stories with such themes as dreams, labyrinths, mirrors, infinite libraries, the manipulations of chance, gaucho knife-fighters, transparent tigers and the elusive nature of identity itself.
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A collection of stories, which are from the Orient, the Islamic world, and the Wild West.
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Includes the stories "The Congress", "Undr", "The Mirror and the Mask", "August 25, 1983", "Blue Tigers", "The Rose of Paracelsus" and "Shakespeare's Memory".
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A collection of essays that discusses the existence (or non-existence) of Hell, the flaws in English literary detectives, the philosophy of... Læs mere
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Composed of poems, parables, and stories, sketches and apocryphal quotations, this book explores the mysterious territory that lies between the dreams of the creative artist and the "real" world.
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This remarkable book by one of the great writers of our time includes essays on a proposed universal language, a justification of suicide, a refutation of time, the nature of dreams, and the intricacies of linguistic forms.
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Now in paperback Borges’s erudite and entertaining lectures on English literature from Beowulf to Oscar Wilde.
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Though best known in the English speaking world for his short fictions and poems, Borges is revered in Latin America equally as an immensely prolific and beguiling writer of non-fiction prose. This title features more than 150 of Borges' pieces.
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