The Aleph and Other Stories
Borges, Jorge Luis
Hurley, Andrew (TRN)
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BOOK SYNOPSIS
Full of philosophical puzzles and supernatural surprises, these stories contain some of Borgess most fully realized human characters. With uncanny insight he takes us inside the minds of an unrepentant Nazi, an imprisoned Mayan priest, fanatical Christian theologians, a woman plotting vengeance on her fathers killer, and a man awaiting his assassin in a Buenos Aires guest house. This volume also contains the hauntingly brief vignettes about literary imagination and personal identity collected in The Maker, which Borges wrote as failing eyesight and public fame began to undermine his sense of self.
AUTHOR BIO
Andrew Hurley is a professor of English at the University of Puerto Rico in San Juan, where he also teaches in the Translation Program. His many translations include the works of Reinaldo Arenas.
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He more than anyone renovated the language of fiction and thus opened the way to a remarkable generation of Spanish-American novelists. Gabriel García Márquez, Carlos Fuentes, José Donoso, and Mario Vargas Llosa have all acknowledged their debt to him. (J.M. Coetzee, The New York Review of Books) He has lifted fiction away from the flat earth where most of our novels and short stories still take place. (John Updike)
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ISBN: 0142437883
ISBN(13-digit): 9780142437889
Copyright: 2004
Dewey Decimal: 863/.62
Library of Congress: 2004276122
Book Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 210
Paper Weight (lb): 0.39 lb
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