Ficciones,9780802130303

Ficciones

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ISBN13: 9780802130303
ISBN10: 0802130305
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1994-02-01
Publisher(s): Ingram Pub Services
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Summary

The seventeen pieces in Ficciones demonstrate 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. 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. To enter the worlds in Ficciones is to enter the mind of Jorge Luis Borges, wherein lies Heaven, Hell, and everything in between.

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION 9(6)
PART ONE: THE GARDEN OF FORKING PATHS 15(90)
Prologue 15(2)
Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius
17(20)
The Approach to Al-Mu'tasim
37(8)
Pierre Menard, Author of Don Quixote
45(12)
The Circular Ruins
57(8)
The Babylon Lottery
65(8)
An Examination of the Work of Herbert Quain
73(6)
The Library of Babel
79(10)
The Garden of Forking Paths
89(16)
PART TWO: ARTIFICES 105
Prologue 105(2)
Funes, the Memorious
107(10)
The Form of the Sword
117(6)
Theme of the Traitor and Hero
123(6)
Death and the Compass
129(14)
The Secret Miracle
143(8)
Three Versions of Judas
151(8)
The End
159(4)
The Sect of the Phoenix
163(4)
The South
167

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