Spanish Texts: Borges: Ficciones (Paperback)

from medievalmama

Have read it in Spanish and in Borges' own translation into English. Two different books as he uses the older concept of translatio imagii rather than slavishly translating word-for-word. Got me into the whole realm of magical realism and almost made me double-major in Spanish,except that I could...

from beabatllori

Wow. Just WOW.I'm going to have to read these again. They're so complex and multilayered and unbelievably rich. I don't think that anyone can claim to have extracted all of their meaning in one sitting.And still, nothing about them even remotely sounds pretentious. Everything's so finely tuned an...

from kratib

I would classify Ficciones as fiction for philosophers. Actually, a more contemporary term for philosophers is information scientists, and Borges' short stories are all about thought experiments concerning information, regardless of context. The most striking example is The Infinite Library, whic...

from datrappert

If ever a book deserved a six star rating, this is yet. Borges writes ten page stories that have more packed into them philosophically, intellectually, and entertainingly than any 600- or 1000-page novel I can think of. He could have written Foucault's Pendulum in about 8 pages. These are stories...

from melnicolai

I have the Everyman's Library edition of Ficciones, published in 1993. The original was published in 1956 by Emecè Editores S.A., of Buenos Aires. I imagine the Buenos Aires of 1956, and suspect that what exists in my imagination shares little more than a name and perhaps a few incidental details...