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Ficciones

Anthony Kerrigan

4.4/5 ( ratings)

The seventeen pieces in Ficciones demonstrate the whirlwind of Borges's genius and mirror the precision and potency of his intellect and inventiveness, his piercing irony, his skepticism, and his obsession with fantasy. Borges sends us on a journey into a compelling, bizarre, and profoundly resonant realm; we enter the fearful sphere of Pascal's abyss, the surreal and literal labyrinth of books, and the iconography of eternal return. To enter the worlds in Ficciones is to enter the mind of Jorge Luis Borges, wherein lies Heaven, Hell, and everything else in between.

Part One: The Garden of Forking Paths
Prologue
Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius
The Approach to Al-Mu'tasim
Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote
The Circular Ruins
The Lottery in Babylon
An Examination of the Work of Herbert Quain
The Library of Babel
The Garden of Forking Paths
Part Two: Artifices
Prologue
Funes the Memorious
The Form of the Sword
Theme of the Traitor and the Hero
Death and the Compass
The Secret Miracle
Three Versions of Judas
The End
The Sect of the Phoenix
The South

Language: English

Pages: 174

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Grove Press

Release: February 01, 1994

ISBN: 0802130305

ISBN 13: 9780802130303

Ficciones

Anthony Kerrigan

4.4/5 ( ratings)

The seventeen pieces in Ficciones demonstrate the whirlwind of Borges's genius and mirror the precision and potency of his intellect and inventiveness, his piercing irony, his skepticism, and his obsession with fantasy. Borges sends us on a journey into a compelling, bizarre, and profoundly resonant realm; we enter the fearful sphere of Pascal's abyss, the surreal and literal labyrinth of books, and the iconography of eternal return. To enter the worlds in Ficciones is to enter the mind of Jorge Luis Borges, wherein lies Heaven, Hell, and everything else in between.

Part One: The Garden of Forking Paths
Prologue
Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius
The Approach to Al-Mu'tasim
Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote
The Circular Ruins
The Lottery in Babylon
An Examination of the Work of Herbert Quain
The Library of Babel
The Garden of Forking Paths
Part Two: Artifices
Prologue
Funes the Memorious
The Form of the Sword
Theme of the Traitor and the Hero
Death and the Compass
The Secret Miracle
Three Versions of Judas
The End
The Sect of the Phoenix
The South

Language: English

Pages: 174

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Grove Press

Release: February 01, 1994

ISBN: 0802130305

ISBN 13: 9780802130303

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