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Informationen zum Autor Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) is one of the greatest writers to have emerged from modern Latin America. Klappentext By common consent, the Argentinian Jorge Luis Borges (1890-1986) is one of the greatest writers to have emerged from Latin America. His finest work is Ficciones (1944), a collection of brilliantly-crafted, essay-like short stories. Writers responsible for the modern upsurge in Latin American narrative, like Gabriel García Márquez (Columbia, a Nobel Prize winner), Julio Cortázar (Argentina) and Carlos Fuentes (Mexico), concur in identifying Borges as an honoured predecessor. In turn, Borges' work has been a major influence for writers in English and other languages, as well as film makers among them Peter Carey, Nadine gordimer, Salman Rushdie, Umberto Eco, Italo Calvino, Michel Foucault, Jean Luc Godard, Peter Greenaway, and Bernardo Bertolucci. This edition by Gordon Brotherston and Peter Hulme, updated from the original 1976 edition by the same authors, offers a comprehensive selection of stories from the work in the original language with an English introduction, detailed notes, a generous vocabulary, bibliography, as well as chronological and other tables. Vorwort A student edition of Argentinian Jorge Luis Borges' Ficciones (1944), with an English introduction, commentary notes and vocabulary list. Zusammenfassung By common consent, the Argentinian Jorge Luis Borges (1890-1986) is one of the greatest writers to have emerged from Latin America. His finest work is Ficciones (1944), a collection of brilliantly-crafted, essay-like short stories. Writers responsible for the modern upsurge in Latin American narrative, like Gabriel García Márquez (Columbia, a Nobel Prize winner), Julio Cortázar (Argentina) and Carlos Fuentes (Mexico), concur in identifying Borges as an honoured predecessor. In turn, Borges’ work has been a major influence for writers in English and other languages, as well as film makers among them Peter Carey, Nadine gordimer, Salman Rushdie, Umberto Eco, Italo Calvino, Michel Foucault, Jean Luc Godard, Peter Greenaway, and Bernardo Bertolucci.This edition by Gordon Brotherston and Peter Hulme, updated from the original 1976 edition by the same authors, offers a comprehensive selection of stories from the work in the original language with an English introduction, detailed notes, a generous vocabulary, bibliography, as well as chronological and other tables. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface to the second edition Life Dates Introduction The Argentinian and the cosmopolitan experience When and how the Ficciones came to be written Persona, character and plot The diminished 'I' and the totalizing vision In sum Notes to the Introduction Select Bibliography FICCIONES Tlon, Uqbar, Orbius Tertius El acercamiento a Almotasim Pierre Menard, autor del Quijote Las ruinas circulares La loteria en Babilonia La biblioteca de Babel El jardin de senderos que se bifurcan Funes el memorioso La forma de la espada Tema del traidor y del heroe La muerte y la brujula El milagro secreta Elfin ElSur El aleph Notes Vocabulary ...
