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Historia universal de la infamia / Ficciones / El Aleph Jorges Luis Borges publisher: , 1935/ 1944 / 1949 translated as: Fictions publisher: Penguin, 2000 translation: Andrew Hurley refered to by: Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez The Discovery of Heaven Harry Mulisch House of Leaves Mark Z. Danielewski Lolita Vladimir Nabokov The Psychiatrist and Other Stories J.M. Machado de Assis Marcovaldo: or, The Seasons in the City Italo Calvino Snow Orhan Pamuk
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summary: This is a collection of Borges's fiction, translated and gathered into a single volume. From his 1935 debut with The Universal History of |
Iniquity, through the influential collections Ficciones and The Aleph, to his final work from the 1980s, Shakespeare Memory. |
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| BOOKS BY JORGES LUIS BORGES: Fictions 1935/ 1944 / 1949 This is a collection of Borges's fiction, translated and gathered into a single volume. From his 1935 debut with The Universal History of Iniquity, through the influential collections Ficciones and The Aleph, to his final work from the 1980s, Shakespeare Memory. | WHAT TO READ AFTER FICTIONS? TOMBOLA The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories Franz Kafka, 1915-1924 Tales of Mystery and Imagination Edgar Allan Poe, 1833-1849 Pale Fire Vladimir Nabokov, 1962 [De versierde mens] Harry Mulisch, 1957 Invisible Cities Italo Calvino, 1972 The Name of the Rose Umberto Eco, 1980 The New York Trilogy Paul Auster, 1985-1986 (published together in 1990) | |
| The Aleph and Other Stories 1949 In stories that play with the very form of the short story, in this collection, Borges returns again and again to his themes: dreams, labyrinths, mirrors, infinite libraries, the manipulations of chance, gaucho knife-fighters, transparent tigers, and the elusive nature of identity itself. | ||
| Mahomed's Double 1936 Short story by the 'master of mirrors.' See also Borges and I. | ||
| Borges and I 1946 Short story by the 'master of mirrors.' See also Mahomed's Double. | ||
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