Jorge Luis Borges était un écrivain et poète argentin qui a profondément remodelé la littérature moderne. Ses écrits sont célébrés pour leur profondeur philosophique, leurs labyrinthes complexes de pensée et leur exploration de royaumes métaphoriques tels que les rêves, les miroirs et le temps. Borges a magistralement fusionné divers genres et styles littéraires, explorant constamment les thèmes de l'identité, de la réalité et de la nature de l'existence. Son approche narrative innovante et ses profondes enquêtes thématiques en ont fait une figure fondamentale de la littérature mondiale du XXe siècle.
Reprise de deux recueils publiés en 1941 et 1944, contenant 14 nouvelles ou contes brefs relevant du fantastique moderne dont l'écrivain argentin est l'un des meileurs représentants. Maître de l'insolite, à l'érudition vertigineuse, Borges possède à merveille cet art subtil et allusif qui plonge le lecteur dans un état second où la réalité prend un relief étrange et dépaysant. Ouvrage important pour le genre. Excellente préface d'initiation.
El libro se inicia con "El Otro," donde Borges aborda el viejo tema del doble: los personajes son lo bastante distintos como para ser dos y lo bastante parecidos como para ser uno. El unico elemplo de cuento de amor es "Ulrica." Luego vienen, entre otros, "El Congreso," acerca de una empresa tan vasta que confunde al fin con el cosmos y con la suma de los dias; "La Secta de los Treinta," historia de una herejia posible; "Undr" y "El Espejo y la Mascara," sobre literaturas seculares que constan de una sola palabra; "El Soborno," que refleja la obsesion etica de los americanos del Norte; y finalmente, cierra el volumen "El Libro de Arena," objeto inconcebible.
Jorge Luis Borges's Labyrinths is a collection of short stories and essays showcasing one of Latin America's most influential and imaginative writers.Jorge Luis Borges was a literary spellbinder whose tales of magic, mystery and murder are shot through with deep philosophical paradoxes. This collection brings together many of his stories, including the celebrated 'Library of Babel', whose infinite shelves contain every book that could ever exist, 'Funes the Memorious' the tale of a man fated never to forget a single detail of his life, and 'Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote', in which a French poet makes it his life's work to create an identical copy of Don Quixote. In later life, dogged by increasing blindness, Borges used essays and brief tantalising parables to explore the enigma of time, identity and imagination. Playful and disturbing, scholarly and seductive, his is a haunting and utterly distinctive voice.Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. A poet, critic and short story writer, he received numerous awards for his work including the 1961 International Publisher's Prize (shared with Samuel Beckett). He has a reasonable claim, along with Kafka and Joyce, to be one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century.~penguin.co.uk
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. In THE TOTAL LIBRARY, more than 150 of Borges' most brilliant pieces are brought together for the first time in one volume - all in superb new translations. More than a hundred of the pieces have never previously been published in English. THE TOTAL LIBRARY presents Borges at once as a deceptively self-effacing guide to the universe and as the inventor of a universe that is an indispensible guide to Borges
A collection of writings includes essays, literary and film criticism, biographical sketches, and lectures
Borges' stories have a deceptively simple, almost laconic style. In maddeningly ingenious stories that play with the very form of the short story, Borges returns again and again to his themes: dreams, labyrinths, mirrors, infinite libraries, the manipulations of chance, gaucho knife-fighters, transparent tigers and the elusive nature of identity itself. schovat popis
