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.
This is a collection, in translation, of the short, the very short stories, and a few of the critical essays of Argentina's most avant-garde writer. He was born of mixed Spanish, English, and remotely Portuguese-Jewish ancestry in Buenos Aires in 1899, inheriting as well the flux and inconsistency of a far-flung border area of Western culture. Borges began his litarary career as a poet, and then turned to these prose-poem stories and fables. They display an intellectual pyrotechnical brilliance, carried to the farthest limit. Borge's nihilism also far outstrips Sartre or Becket, and in comparison with his elegance, invention and universal culture, they are not much more than bourgeois humanists. This Argentinian, with a cabalistic turn of mind, takes all literature, philosophy and metaphysics as his domain and they become, as Andre Maurois says in his preface, "a game of the mind". Borges seeks to astonish and does so successfully.
Featuring the complete sonnets of a renowned twentieth-century writer, this edition presents the works in both English and Spanish. It highlights the poet's mastery of language and emotional depth, offering readers a dual-language experience that enhances appreciation of the original text and its translation. This collection not only showcases the beauty of sonnet form but also invites exploration of themes such as love, loss, and the human experience, making it a valuable addition for poetry enthusiasts and bilingual readers alike.
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
