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Dantesco
Incluye los siguientes ensayos (exclusivamente acerca de La Divina Comedia):

El noble cantillo del canto cuarto
El falso problema de Ugolino
El último viaje de Ulises
El verdugo piadoso
Dante y los visionarios anglosajones
Purgatorio, I, 13
El Simurgh y el águila
El encuentro en un sueño
La última sonrisa de Beatriz ... Read more

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A pocket-sized Pearls edition of some of Borges’ best fictions and essays.Everything and Nothing collects the best of Borges’ highly influential work—written in the 1930s and ‘40s—that foresaw the internet (“Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius”), quantum mechanics (“The Garden of Forking Paths”), and cloning (“Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote”). David Foster Wallace described Borges as  “scalp-crinkling . . . Borges’ work is designed primarily as metaphysical arguments...to transcend individual consciousness.” ... Read more

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A superb selection of the Borges who was and is
This work contains a number of Borges' most- well known 'ficciones'. 'Pierre Menard Author of the Quixote' starts off with a catalogue of the surviving known writings of this 'fictive' author. It then describes his great project the rewriting or writing anew of 'Don Quixote' and his completion of chapters nine, and thirty- eight, and partial completion of chapter twenty- two. It goes on to explore the meaning and implication of a writing which word- by- word is identical with the original and yet reads differently.
The other stories are also among Borges' most well- known. 'Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius' 'The Lottery in Babylon' 'The Garden of Forking Paths' 'Death and the Compass'.
Among the non- fiction works are 'Kafka and his Precursors' the now legendary 'Borges and I' ' Everything and Nothing' ' Nightmares' and 'Blindness'.
Borges games with Identity and Time are played here in the most masterful way. His depiction of the elusiveness and non- apprehendable reality of the private self is complemented by his celebration of the communal cooperative creation which is Literary Tradition.
This does not mean the work is not moving on a private confessional level. For however metaphysical it may seem Borges and I tells us much about the man himself, coffee- drinker, map- reader and student of Stevenson and Kipling. The concluding essay is of course a most moving one, as it is impossible not to be touched by the voice of 'sightlost creators who heroically persist in creating literature for the world- Homer, Milton and Borges who God 'provides day- labor for, light denied.'
The mystery and joy of great Literature is in these pages.
Read and delight.

100th anniversary of Borges' birth
The introduction to this celebratory volume "shocked" me - Borges was first published in English in 1962.Within five years, a farm kid like myself was familiar with him.Obviously, he work immediately was recognized as exceptional, out of the ordinary ...This slim volume provides an enjoyable reminder of his other works or a great introduction to the themes and style of Borges.

The volume begins with a handful of stories - the rewriting of Don Quixote, the imagined world, life as chance, spies and detectives.All of which explore language, imagination, reality, labyrinth ... In all, Borges displays a broad education, mingling literature, psychology, philosophy, philology, the occult in a manner both entertaining and provocative.

The stories are followed by essays - a meditation on the Great Wall of China and the destruction of history, a consideration of precursors to Kafka with provocative ideas of how Kafka affects our reading of his precursors, Shakespeare and self-identity, Borges and self-identity.In reading these, one is reminded how thin the line between essay and fiction is in the work of Borges.

Finally, the book closes with transcriptions of two speeches - one on dreams and nightmares, the other on blindness and the poet.

This wonderful selection provides a representative and varied introduction to Borges that is not to be missed.The translations are excellent, the writing superb.

the stone and the shell
This beautiful little book contains just a few of Borges' best works from his 1944 work Ficciones (also widely available in the 1964 collection of English translations entitled Labyrinths).

It also includes important later works of Borges, Nightmares and Blindness (transcriptions of two lectures from 1977).

His own worst nightmare involves discovering the King of Norway, with his sword and his dog, sitting at the foot of Borges' bed. "Retold, my dream is nothing; dreamt, it was terrible." Such is the power of describing, of reading this father of modern literature.

In Blindness, he examines his own loss of sight in the context of examining poetry itself. In a story right out of, well, Borges, he discusses his appointment as Director of a library at the very time he has lost his reading sight. (Two other Directors are also blind.)

"No one should read self-pity or reproach
into this statement of the majesty
of God; who with such splendid irony
granted me books and blindness at one touch."

This lecture is a moving (and brief, just 15 pages) ode to poetry . If one wants ironic context, just consider that these lectures on Nightmares and Blindness were delivered in Buenos Aires at the height of the State of Siege of the Argentine Generals.

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A Finely Pointed Look at Borges
It seems alternately true and false that Jorge Luis Borges lives inside each of his writings in a completely symbiotic or photosynthetic way, feeding off his own product until the man and his work areindistinguishable; the man never seemed to be able to detach himself fromhis story and simply write, and yet at times his expected voicingdisappears and one might believe another author has usurped Borges' pen tocomplete another metaphysic tale.Borges wore many masks, and that fact isacknowledged by the man himself here, in the tiny, fascinating "Borgesand I," in which Stevenson is both invoked and mentioned, crafting aJekyll-and-Hydean bit of self-awareness with the unmistakable tango twistof Borges' playful Argentinian idiom.Everything and Nothing is a samplerof Borges' finest work from his fiction and nonfiction batteries, which arealmost indistinguishable.They overflow with Borges' fascination withlogic, labyrinths, language, and the relation between the three (for a finenonfiction work in this vein, read Poundstone's Labyrinth of Reason) andhow they figure in philosophy and metaphysics.For a more whole view ofBorges, try the new large collections of his work, but for a tiny glance atthe genius of this literary superstar, Everything and Nothing is perfect.

The riddle of multiplicity and personal identity
The indefinability of the self and the multiplicity of personal identity are the main lines of thought connecting these 11 pieces of excellent literature, among the finest of Borges's. An author of short fictionstories, essayist and poet -though perhaps too much of a thinker forpoetry-, Borges is, without hesitation, one of the greatest writers of alltime. This careful, well-thought selection gives a brilliant account of oneof Borges's conspicuous, recurrent themes: the difficulty of definingself-identity, since a man's distinctive features, whether mental, physicalor even metaphysical, are not unique to him. As in some of the most notedmasterpieces of literature, the philosophical substrate provides thebackground for fascinating and intriguing stories, frequently trespassingthe fantastic or the bizarre. So, we witness the struggle of an early 20thCentury French novelist to write The Quixote -not a contemporary version ofCervantes's renowned work, but the original -- and succeeding! We have theoccasion to come to terms with the strange world of Tlön and its uncannyunderstanding of reality, as shown by its diverse, odd languages. TheLottery of Babylon gives every man the opportunity to become rich, powerfuland exultant...or appallingly miserable and abject -by chance? The Garden ofForking Paths is a legacy of innumerable futures -which, however, does notinclude all of them. Death and the Compass displays the confrontation of adetective with his murderer, whom he is chasing, in a labyrinth of cluesspread throughout space and time. The brief historical and literaryessays concerning the elusive and somewhat contradictory character of theEmperor of China, builder of the Great Wall and destructor of books, andthe precursors of Kafka, paving the way for something they ignore and beinglater re-created, explore the indefinability of man's essence, in much thesame way as the previous fiction stories, since one never knows quite whatare the limits between fiction and fact, both inside and out of Borges'swork. Borges and I and Everything and Nothing -the latter is theoriginal title by the author in English, though the work was written, asthe rest of the compilation, in Spanish- express succinctly the coreargument of the book, raising an uneasy metaphysical question: Whereas manmay not know exactly who he is, does God know? Finally, twoconferences given by Borges close the volume, turning to episodes fromBorges's own life, in order to resume somehow the book's contents byinvoking the fantastic worlds of dreams -rather, of nightmares- and ofblindness, that suggest a vaster and more weird reality with perhapsblurrier limits than we can possibly understand. However, there is spacefor man if we are able to accept what we cannot understand, as a startingpoint for creating our own-made life. ... Read more

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Best Borges Biography
This is the best Borges' biography I've read so far but, as usual, his biographers are not his best critics, and his life is better told by himself in a number of interviews and his own brief autobiography. Still, if you have to get one, get this one. The biographer died a few years earlier than the biographed, but the latest editions bring the chronology up to date. But yes, for a detailed "ending", you'll have to go somewhere else.

Still, Borge's life happened more inside libraries and the books he read and wrote, than in the so called "real" world. So, read his books first. ... Read more

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A collection of fantasy stories which includes stories by James Joyce, Lewis Carroll, Ursula Leguin, Ray Bradbury, Oscar Wilde J.G Ballard, Franz Kafka..... ... Read more

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first rate!
This collection is excellent.Along with the deservedly famous selections such as The Monkey's Paw and The Man Who Liked Dickens, there are many stories even the most erudite fantasy reader may be unacquainted with.Some of the tales, such as The Story of the Foxes by Niu Chiao and the unsettling Guilty Eyes by Ah'med Ech Chiruani, are half page at most, but will implant themselves in the memory as effectively as the longer narrations.("Guilty Eyes" is as durable as a poison oak seed.)Also present is a fine selection of Latin American fictions, with a focus on Argentine writers.Kafka' Josephine the Singer, Cocteau's The Look of Death, and Beerbohm's Enoch Soames sound straight out of the world of Borges, a tribute to the latter writer who managed to forge a world view at once deeply personal yet universal.Borges's own Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius is included as well as a piece by the under-read Casares.All in all an indispensable collection, marred only by an astonishing number of typos.Buy it!(At 92 cents it's a steal.)

fantastic collection
This book is more what a fantasy-reader friend of mine called "literary fantasy" dismissively, but I think it's a wonderful collection - all over the map in terms of stories, global in scope and style, and just great reading overall. ... Read more

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Borges first book of short stories
Borges first book of short stories is as good and entertaining as anything he wrote. It is probably not the first thing to read by him, though, simply because here he is still "testing" out his style. Do not misunderstand me. These stories have a style of its own, perfectly matching its kind and atmsphere. Only, it is not The Lybrary of Babel or The South...
The book is composed of seven caricaturesque and tragic stories of real but not very well known historical characters (all of them linked to some crime or other); six brief pieces written by Borges as if he were someone else, or taken from imaginary books; and one story (Man on a pink corner) that is considered his first "all by himself" short-story, a crime situated in the 1900's slums of Buenos Aires with a twisted end and unique in Borges' ouvre for his use of slang and street language. Fun to read. ... Read more

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TOO LITTLE TO TELL
In his tiny preface, Jorge Luis Borges describes Maria Luisa Bombal as a "wonderful Chilean writer", and in the introduction by the translators she is described as "the most important Latin American woman novelist of this century". This is not faint praise. The question is, how come nobody in America has ever heard of her and you can count her works in translation on two fingers? This slim volume is not enough for me to make any judgements of her worth or talent.

Bombal writes stories that border on fantasy or horror. In the first story, actually more a novella, "The Final Mist", she writes about two cousins who marry each other a few months after the man's first wife has died. He cannot forget his dead wife and she merely married him to keep from being a spinster. So she seeks her satisfaction in other places, meeting a strangely supernatural man in the streets one night. "The Tree" also concerns a marriage. In it, the wife, Brigada, comes to the realization that she no longer knows why she married her husband. "The Unknown" was to me the best story of the collection since it lacked all sentimentality. It was about a pirate ship that gets sucked down to the bottom of the ocean by a whirlpool. When the crew wakes up they find themselves in a desert whose sky is simply a reflection of the sand. "New Islands" shows the conflict between two men as they covet the same married woman even as strange volcanic islands form off the coast.

After reading this too brief collection, I want to read more by Bombal. There's just not enough here to get any feel for the writer. She does make you feel uneasy and when she gets the horror elements going it really works. Her relationships do verge into the sappy at times though. I also feel that this collection was manipulated in some way to try to portray Bombal as some feminist champion, as mentioned in the book jacket. I would like to find one of her novels, but I doubt I will find one in English. ... Read more

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Dreamtigers by Jorge Louis Borges
"... he thought that the rose was to be found in its own eternity and not in his words; and that we may mention or allude to a thing, but not express it."

After enjoying a few of Borges' short stories, I wanted to read more of him. Dreamtigers was a compulsive buy last week when Andy and I went to Barnes and Noble just as it was about to close. I usually spend a significant amount of time researching and deliberating over a book before purchasing it, but this slim volume immediately caught my eye. Mortimer J. Adler called Dreamtigers "one of the literary masterpieces of the twentieth century," and it is said to be Borges' most personal work.

The book is composed of poetry and short prose sketches (other reviews have called them "parables"). Though these pieces are on a variety of topics, from toenails to Shakespeare, they are unified by threads of Borges' insight. Borges treats this book as a kind of sketchbook illustrating his own philosophical thoughts: time, human nature, and perceptions of self are recurring topics. He also uses this book as an opportunity to engage in dialogues with the masters--comparisons between Homer's blindness and his own failing sight are made, and he also devotes several pieces to Shakespeare and Don Quixote.

I really enjoyed this book, and I'm glad I read it. I'm excited to read more Borges, in particular his master work Ficciones. The prose pieces in Dreamtigers were phenomenal. The poems were interesting as well, but did not illicit the same breathless response. This is when I wish I could read Spanish fluently, as I suspect the poems are better in the original language. The translator kept rhyming schemes intact, and I suspect that this might at times weakened the verse.

At only 96 pages, this is not a long book. That does not mean, however, that it is a light read. What strikes me most about Borges is his ability to pack so much into a single sentence. Every sentence is needed, every sentence has a purpose. The book might be small but it is certainly dense and will have you asking questions long after you finish it.

Borges as Borges the 'maker'
This is supposedly the book that Borges thought his most intimate and personal. Each small story, sketch, parable, poem provides insight into the imagination of one of the great literary creators of all time. His ability to condense into a few lines or paragraphs - worlds of theme and question are unmatched except by his holy predecessor Kafka.
'El Hacedor' 'The Maker' the title - storyis of course who Homer and Shakespeare and Borges are and are not. In Borges perhaps most famous essay- story- reflection- poem 'Borges and I' he considers the relationship between the person he is , and the name he has become- and he playfully puts down the legend while understanding it is already confounded with the real passing Borges.
To read this work and his work is to come alive to new possibilies in Literature in Imagination and in Life.
A true creation is a great gift of life.
Borges gives us Borges and much much more besides.

Genius in Fragments and Sketches
Jorge Luis Borges will be remembered as one of the outstanding writers of the twentieth century. I am continually awed by his imagination, by his incredible breadth, and by his command of language.

At one point Borges considered this particular collection of miscellany - odd poems, stories, parables, sketches, fragments, and fictional quotations - to be a mirror of his life, and even possibly a work that would outlast his widely admired Ficciones and El Aleph. Dreamtigers is indeed fascinating, but it likely to be more fully appreciated by readers already familiar with Borges. A reader new to Jorge Luis Borges might begin with Ficciones, The Aleph, Labyrinths, or Seven Nights.

The prose was translated by Mildred Boyer and the poetry by Harold Morland. The arrangement is by Borges himself, and reflects an association of ideas, not a chronological grouping. Any reader acquainted with his works undoubtedly recognizes that Borges often returns to favorite themes in various guises, sometime deliberately, other times unintentionally.

This collection seems more personal and biographical than his better known works. The dedication is to an Argentine poet, long dead, that Borges once unreservedly criticized. The essay Dreamtigers is a personal reflection on the limits of creativity. The Draped Mirrors is a haunting recollection about a friend that suffereda uniquely personal (from Borges perspective) mental illness. Borges and I explores the confused identity ofBorges the writer and Borges the man. Other essays are less biographical, and reveal his deep fascination with the thoughts and ideas of other writers, especially Homer, Dante, Plato, Coleridge, and Cervantes.

Dreamtigers is evenly divided between prose and poetry. Borges began his literary career as a poet and only gradually moved to prose.Amazingly, his poetry is as remarkable as his prose. Manypoems reflect his vast knowledge and interests - the inevitable passage of time, the game of chess, mirrors, Anglo-Saxon grammar, and Ariosto and the Arabs. Others are more biographical, often touching on themes that were also subjects of essays. The poetic translation by Harold Morland is excellent.

GREAT INTRODUCTION TO BORGES'S SHORTER WORKS
I give this book 4 stars because I honestly don't feel that it's his best collection. That honor would go to his collection of short stories entitled, THE BOOK OF SAND. LABYRINTHS comes in a close second or third. But for the beginning Borges reader, this is an EXCELLENT place to start. The book is divided into two primary parts: Borges's parables and super-short stories; and his poems. There's nothing over three pages long in here, except the introduction. Naturally, I found lots of quotable lines and paragraphs in this work. The translation is very good, too. It definitely sounds like Borges, and the tranlators even manage to get some of his poems to rhyme while still getting across that Borgesian feeling. You'd almost think that all of this stuff was written in English to begin with. Assuming you haven't read Borges, he's very intellectual, knows lots about history and books, and loves to write on the subjects of tigers, yellow, blindness, Dante, Martin Fierro, and *the other Borges*. Hope you like this book.

excellent if you're in the proper frame of mind
dreamtigers has languished on my shelf for over a year... for some reason i just couldn't get into it. foolish me.

this little book broken into twoparts- a collection of short pieces some poetry. all very brief- thelongest passage occupies a little over two pages.

what i'm really struckby is how personal this collection is. i've seen borges as a toweringintellect but rather cold. dreamtigers has forced me to re-evaluate this-there's tenderness, loss and affection in these works.

borges is alwaysdazzling, and the second part is a good introduction to his poetry, ofwhich i understand there is a lot. the introductory and appendix notes aremost illuminating. ... Read more

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De 1931 a 1970 Jorege Luis Borges colaboro activamente en la revista Sur. Muchos de los textos que publico alli fueron recogidos en sus Obras Completas (1971), pero otros -ensayos sobretemas literarios y politicos, resenas bibliograficas, notas de cine, etcetera- permanecieron ineditos en libro, fuera del alcance del publico. Este volumen reune casi cien colaboraciones dispersas; se cierra con el discurso de homenaje que Borges pronuncio en la Unesco, con motivo de la muerte de Victoria Ocampo, y que Sur publico en 1980. ... Read more

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Borges en Sur
Borges escribió un gran número de ensayos que, en el momento de hacer la selección para su publicación en libro, decidió dejar afuera. Uno de los motivos, sin duda, es que varios de estos ensayos repiten algunas ideas que se encuentran en algún otro lugar en su obra. Pero con Borges siempre hay sorpresas. Resulta obvio que no escribía de una manera cuando lo hacía para un libro, y de otra cuando escribía la lista de la lavandería (que no es el caso de este libro, no se preocupen). Su estilo es firme y parejo, y siempre atrapante.

En su caso, volver a repasar algunas ideas siempre implica ver las cosas desde un nuevo ángulo (por ejemplo, en este libro encontramos el ensayo sobre bibliotecas infinitas que precede a su cuento "La Biblioteca de Babel"; en otro texto encontramos las "reglas" del cuento policial, etc.). Para aquellos que ya hayan pasado por "Discusión", "Otras Inquisiciones", etc., y quieran curiosear un poco más, creo que este libro (así como los tomos de Textos Recobrados -- sobre todo el segundo) vale la pena.

Pero dejo la cosa acá, siguiendo el consejo: "los directores cinematográficos --y los novelistas-- suelen olvidar que las muchas justificaciones (y los muchos pormenores circunstanciales) son contraproducentes. La realidad no es vaga, pero sí nuestra percepción general de la realidad; de ahí el peligro de justificar demasiado los actos o de inventar muchos detalles". --Borges, El delator, Borges en Sur ... Read more

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Primer libro de cuentos de Borges
El libro de Borges preferido por Onetti, "Historia..." es tan bueno y entretenido como cualquiera de sus libros. Probablemente no sea lo primero que hay que leer de Borges (para eso: Ficciones y El Aleph). El mismo lo consideraba una especie de cuaderno de ejercicios; pero ahí recide su fascinación.
El libro está compuesto de siete caricaturescas y tragicas historia de personajes reales aunque no muy conocidos, todos ligados al crimen de una manera u otra; seis piezas breves escritas por Borges como si fuese otro, o tomadas de libros imaginarios; y una historia clásica (Hombre de la esquina rosada. )

INDICE

Prólogo a la primera edición
Prólogo a la edición de 1954
El atroz redentor Lazarus Morell
El impostor inverosímil Tom Castro
La viuda Ching, pirata
El proveedor de iniquidades Monk Eastman
El asesino desinteresado Bill Harrigan
El incivil maestro de ceremonias Kotsuké no Suké
El tintorero enmascarado Hákim de Merv
Indice de las fuentes
Hombre de la esquina rosada
Etcétera
Un teólogo en la muerte
La cámara de las estatuas
Historia de los dos que soñaron
El brujo postergado
El espejo de tinta
Un doble de Mahoma ... Read more

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The Best Short Biography of Borges
Those of us who have followed the writing career of Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) from outside of Argentina have seen him primarily as the pathetic old blind man grasping on to the arms of his visitors as they wended their way to some café in the northern suburbs of Buenos Aires. What this excellent short biography by Jason Wilson reminds us is that Borges was at one time a dashing young man who lived through exciting times.

At the same time, he always lived with his mother. It was not until Doña Leonora died at an advanced age that Borges contracted marriage with Maria Kodama, a younger student of his who was willing to "do" for him in his old age. There is even some question as to whether the author ever had a normal sexual life outside of dealings with prostitutes, which went against his grain, especially after his father forcibly precipitated his sexual experience with his own mistress in a Geneva brothel.

Perhaps Borges felt there was a congenital doom in his family. His father, too, had gone blind; but surgery corrected his vision a few years before he committed suicide. These are not conditions that are conducive to a normal, happy and healthy sex drive.

What Borges lacked in that department is more than made up for the power of his imagination. During an almost Buddhist burst of contemplation in the late 1930s and early 1940s--just before his own blindness set in--Borges completed most of the poems and stories for which he is famous. The sad truth is that, after Borges became known outside of Argentina, his career was in decline. He continued to write, but never so much or so well as before.

Nonetheless, he was the recipient of many international awards--except for the biggest one of all. Because he met with, smiled, and shook the hands of two South American tyrants, Generals Videla of Argentina and Pinochet Ugarte of Chile, a member of the Swedish Academy resolved to blackball Borges every time his name came up for nomination. (It galls me that so many inferior talents have won the Nobel Prize for Literature, but then, that's politics for you.)

Jason Wilson has written a short but sweet book that I heartily recommend to everyone who loves Borges as much as I do. Ever since 1969, when I first read LABYRINTHS, Borges has in a sense been my mentor in the world of literature; and I feel that Wilson has written an incisive and just book about this great author. ... Read more

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This collection of 11 short stories includes "The Gospel According to Mark", "The Unworthy Friend", "The Duel", "The End of the Duel", "Rosendo's Tale", "The Intruder", "The Meeting", "Juan Mruana", "The Elder Lady", "Guayaquil" and "Doctor Brodie's Report". ... Read more

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Borges at 70 Remains Uniquely Borgesian
The Borges I first encountered was the intellectual lecturer and essayist of Seven Nights. Later I marveled at his mystical, fantastical short stories found in Labyrinths, Ficciones, and The Aleph. The scholarly researcher was most clearly revealed by The Book of Imaginary Beings, and the poet by Dreamtigers. Now with this short collection, Doctor Brodie's Report, I have discovered yet another dimension of the remarkable Borges.

These short stories are more pragmatic, more straight-forwardly constructed, and more journalistic in their structure than his earlier imaginative stories on which his reputation is largely founded. In many cases these later tales involve some violence. Rivalries and duels, historical military accounts, and seamy slums are found in these works by the more realistic Borges. However, two stories - The Gospel According to Mark and the title story, Doctor Brodie's Report - are more imaginative, and thus classically Borgesian in their outlook.

Doctor Brodie's Report (1970) consists of only eleven stories:

The Intruder (1966) - a rivalry between brothers, The Meeting (1969) - a duel manipulated by the weapons themselves, Rosendo's Tale (1969) - a duel avoided, Doctor Brodie's Report (1970) - classic Borgesian imagination, The Duel (1970) - aristocratic, artistic rivalry,The Elder Lady (1970) - a disturbing biographical account, The End of the Duel (1970) - an actual event unbelievable as fiction, The Gospel According to Mark (1970) - a shocking story of forgiveness, Guayaquil (1970) - old rivalries surface in unexpected setting, Juan Murana (1970) - cherished love leads to fatal violence, and The Unworthy Friend (1970) - an account of betrayal, perhaps biographical.

Borges - in collaboration with Norman Thomas di Giovanni - translated these stories into English more or less simultaneously as they were written.I was familiar with The Intruder and Rosendo's Tale from The Aleph and Other Stories, 1933-1969.The others were entirely new to me. All stories are quite exceptional.

It is difficult to give less than five stars to Borges, but fairness requires an occasional four stars, if only to separate the truly superb Borges from simply exceptional Borges.

My copy is a 1978 softcover reprint edition by E. P. Dutton publishers (ISBN 0-525-47541-9). It contains a short Forward and the Preface to the First Edition (1970).

diamonds in a healthy lawn
Hooray!Here is Borges as accessible as I have read him.While I certainly enjoyed Labyrinths and others of his essays, I preferred Doctor Brodie's Report.The writing is tauter and the insights are less buried--each piece here has a fairly straight-forward point, even if the reader arrives there only after several Borgesian twists and transmogrifications.

The first story in the collection is especially poignant, as it satirizes the quest for a Christ-like life.Revealing us to ourselves is one of the themes he expresses best here.Other political themes recur as well, and despite being a little depressing (he hardly wrote during the best of times), it is impossible not to laugh.

In fact, maybe this book is Borges for the masses.So be it!It's fun, it's a great introduction, and it will whet appetites for more of his puzzles.Super-readers can move on to other weirdoes, like Donald Barthelme. ... Read more

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Ejemplo singular de la poesia gauchesca, culta pero de acento genuinamente popular, EL MARTiN FIERRO es considerado como el exponente maximo de la literatura argentina. El estudio de Jorge Luis Borges. ... Read more

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una pequena introduccion
este pequeno libro, ofrece una ligera introduccion a la literatura norteamericana,vista desde la perspectiva de borges. es el unico libro que he leido de el en ingles y me parecio algo liviano, como para estudiantes.en el no brilla borges el erudito, sino el critico y este muy poco. elfinal del libro hay cortas biografias de los mas importantes autoresnorteamericanos.

LUIS MENDEZ ... Read more