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Collected fictions / Jorge Luis Borges ; Translated by Andrew Hurley.

By: Contributor(s): Language: Spanish Series: Penguin classics deluxe editionPublication details: New York : Penguin Books, 1998Description: ix, 565 páginas ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9780140286809
  • 0140286802
Uniform titles:
  • Short stories. English
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 863
LOC classification:
  • PQ 7797 B732c 1998
Contents:
A Universal History of Iniquity (1935) Fictions (1944) The Aleph (1949) The Maker (1960) In Praise of Darkness (1969) Brodie's Report (1970) The Book of Sand (1975) Shakespeare's Memory (1983)
Summary: The works of an Argentinian writer who took the detective story and turned it into metaphysics. They range from the 1935 'A Universal History of Iniquity', a series of biographies of reprehensible evildoers, to the surrealistic 'August 25, 1983' in which Borges meets himself as an old man.
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Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Humanidades Humanidades (4to. Piso) PQ 7797 B732c 1998 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00000168457

A Universal History of Iniquity (1935)
Fictions (1944)
The Aleph (1949)
The Maker (1960)
In Praise of Darkness (1969)
Brodie's Report (1970)
The Book of Sand (1975)
Shakespeare's Memory (1983)

The works of an Argentinian writer who took the detective story and turned it into metaphysics. They range from the 1935 'A Universal History of Iniquity', a series of biographies of reprehensible evildoers, to the surrealistic 'August 25, 1983' in which Borges meets himself as an old man.

In English, translated from the Spanish

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