Borges: Ficciones (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781853995903)

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 Garc? M疵quez (Columbia, a Nobel Prize winner), Julio Cort痙ar (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.

Author: Jorge Luis Borges
ISBN-10: 1853995908
ISBN-13: 9781853995903
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Published: 12/09/1999
Pages: 232
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.73lbs
Size: 8.54h x 5.54w x 0.52d