Borges and His Successors

Borges and His Successors
Title Borges and His Successors PDF eBook
Author Edna Aizenberg
Publisher University of Missouri Press
Pages 324
Release 1990
Genre Literature
ISBN 9780826207128

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"In the first book devoted to the impact made by Borges on the contemporary aesthetic imagination, Aizenberg brings together specially commissioned essays from international scholars in a variety of disciplines to provide a wide-ranging assessment of Borges's influence on the fiction, literary theory, and arts of our time."--Publishers website.

Borges and the Kabbalah

Borges and the Kabbalah
Title Borges and the Kabbalah PDF eBook
Author Jaime Alazraki
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 222
Release 1988-08-26
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0521306841

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This volume brings together a collection of essays on Borges by leading scholar Jaime Alazraki. Together the essays constitute an introduction to important aspects of Borges' oeuvre, including the influence of the Kabbalah, structure and style in the fiction, Borges' poetry, and Borges' impact on Latin American literature.

Noble Numbers, Subtle Words

Noble Numbers, Subtle Words
Title Noble Numbers, Subtle Words PDF eBook
Author Barbara Milberg Fisher
Publisher Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Pages 180
Release 1997
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 9780838637401

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This study approaches the use of mathematics in fiction in an entirely new way, as a potent instrument of language. Following Wittgenstein's description of mathematical constructs as a component of ordinary language, Fisher shows how number, geometric figuration, algebraic coding, and transcendent abstractions have been made to function as practical narrative tools. Far from rehearsing the various paradigms of numerology, whether Pythagorean, Elizabethan, or Cabalistic, this book explores the tactical deployment of mathematical objects as shaping and framing agents. It reveals how mathematical objects may be subordinated to the storyteller's art.

The Mystery to a Solution

The Mystery to a Solution
Title The Mystery to a Solution PDF eBook
Author John T. Irwin
Publisher JHU Press
Pages 516
Release 1994
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 9780801854668

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Irwin mirrors the aesthetic impact of the genre by creating in his study the dynamics of a detective story--the uncovering of mysteries, the accumulation of evidence, the tracing of clues, and the final solution that ties it all together.

Ficciones

Ficciones
Title Ficciones PDF eBook
Author Jorge Luis Borges
Publisher Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Pages 184
Release 2015-05-12
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0802190731

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“Borges’s composed, carefully wrought, gnarled style is at once the means of his art and its object—his way of ordering and giving meaning to the bizarre and terrifying world he creates: it is a brilliant, burnished instrument, and it is quite adequate to the extreme demands his baroque imagination makes of it . . . . Absolutely and most vividly original.”—Saturday Review The seventeen pieces in Ficciones demonstrate the gargantuan powers of imagination, intelligence, and style of one of the greatest writers of this or any other century. 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. More playful and approachable than the fictions themselves are Borges’s Prologues, brief elucidations that offer the uninitiated a passageway into 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. To enter the worlds in Ficciones is to enter the mind of Jorge Luis Borges, wherein lies Heaven, Hell, and everything in between.

Everything and Nothing (New Directions Pearls)

Everything and Nothing (New Directions Pearls)
Title Everything and Nothing (New Directions Pearls) PDF eBook
Author Jorge Luis Borges
Publisher New Directions Publishing
Pages 96
Release 2010-05-25
Genre Literary Collections
ISBN 0811231283

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A pocket-sized Pearls edition of some of Borges’ best fictions and essays. Everything and Nothing collects the best of Borges’ highly influential work—written in the 1930s and ‘40s—that foresaw the internet (“Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius”), quantum mechanics (“The Garden of Forking Paths”), and cloning (“Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote”). David Foster Wallace described Borges as “scalp-crinkling . . . Borges’ work is designed primarily as metaphysical arguments...to transcend individual consciousness.”

A Personal Anthology

A Personal Anthology
Title A Personal Anthology PDF eBook
Author Jorge Luis Borges
Publisher Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Pages 170
Release 2015-05-12
Genre Literary Collections
ISBN 080219074X

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Handpicked works from the greatest Argentinian writer of the twentieth century. “Without Borges the modern Latin American novel simply would not exist” (Carlos Fuentes, author and diplomat). After almost a half a century of scrupulous devotion to his art, Jorge Luis Borges personally compiled this anthology of his work—short stories, essays, poems, and brief mordant “sketches,” which, in Borges’s hands, take on the dimensions of a genre unique in modern letters. In this anthology, the author has put together those pieces on which he would like his reputation to rest; they are not arranged chronologically, but with an eye to their “sympathies and differences.” A Personal Anthology, therefore, is not merely a collection, but a new composition. “An important work, by far the best yet available to the reader . . . who seeks a representative sampling of the great Argentine writer . . . the standard introduction to Borges in England and the United States.” —Saturday Review