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- catalog abstract "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.".
- catalog contributor b1162747.
- catalog contributor b1162748.
- catalog contributor b1162749.
- catalog contributor b1162750.
- catalog contributor b1162751.
- catalog contributor b1162752.
- catalog contributor b1162753.
- catalog contributor b1162754.
- catalog coverage "Argentina Social life and customs Fiction.".
- catalog created "[1962]".
- catalog date "1962".
- catalog date "[1962]".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "[1962]".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog extent "174 p.".
- catalog identifier "0802130305 (pbk.)".
- catalog issued "1962".
- catalog issued "[1962]".
- catalog language "eng spa".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York, Grove Press".
- catalog spatial "Argentina Social life and customs Fiction.".
- catalog subject "Manners and customs Fiction.".
- catalog subject "PQ7797.B635 F53813 1962".
- catalog subject "PZ4.B73 Fi".
- catalog tableOfContents "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.".
- catalog tableOfContents "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.".
- catalog title "Ficciones. Edited and with an introd. by Anthony Kerrigan.".
- catalog type "Fiction. fast".
- catalog type "text".