Little Clothbound irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith Magical books, infinite libraries, parallel worlds, mazes, labyrinths and philosophical paradoxes haunt these spellbinding tales by one of the most uniquely inventive short story writers of the twentieth century. This collection brings together many of Borges's greatest and most beloved stories, including 'The Garden of Forking Paths', 'The Book of Sand' and 'Shakespeare's Memory'.

Contents:
• The Garden of the Forking Paths
• Funes, His Memory
• The Library of Babel
• Death and the Compass
• Tiön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius
• The Book of Sand
• The Lottery in Babylon
• Pierre Menard, author of the Quixote
• The Circular Ruins
• Shakespeare's Memory

Um dos livros essenciais do escritor Argentino, O Relatório de Brodie reúne 11 contos e foi publicado pela primeira vez em 1970. Precede-os um prólogo em que um narrador experiente justifica, em tom irónico, o seu estilo directo e realista na narrativa de histórias aparentemente simples, à semelhança do jovem Kipling.

Bem diverso de O Aleph, por exemplo, O Relatório de Brodie demonstra uma evolução imprevista na estética de Borges, que se afasta dos enigmas e dos símbolos, e revela simplicidade, nudez e despojamento.

O conto que dá título ao livro - e que foge ao forte pendor realista dos restantes contos - é inspirado na última viagem de Gulliver é a tradução e transcrição de um manuscrito de um missionário escocês, David Brodie, sobre a sua experiência numa região remota, habitada por homens-macacos que ele chama Yahoos.

"Не querido ser fiel, еn estos ejercicios de ciego -dijo en una ocasión Jorge Luis Borges refiriéndose a los relatos incluidos en El libro de arena -, al ejemplo de Wells: la conjunción del estilo llano, a veces casi oral, у de un argumento imposible." El propio autor reconoce la singularidad de uno de estos relatos: "Si de todos mis textos tuviera que rescatar uno solo, rescataría, creo, "El Congreso", que es a la vez el más autobiográfico (el que prodiga más los recuerdos) у el más fantástico".

SÄLLSAMMA HISTORIER - Cuentos breves y extraordnarios - är en antologi sammanställd av författarduon Jorge Luis Borges och Adolfo Bioy Casares i Buenos Aires 1953.

Borges och Casares har här sammanställt korta texter från Babelbibliotekets oändliga hexagoner, alla med en tydlig likhet med tematiken i Borges och Casares prosa. Tidens och rummets paradoxer, livets och dödens outgrundlighet, historiens grymheter och förväxlingsspel.

Exemplen är hämtade från kinesisk litteratur, indisk, arabisk, fornnordisk, europeisk, latinamerikansk, amerikansk.

"Sällsamma historier" är en utmärkt introduktion till Borges tankevärld och en påminnelse om världslitteraturens outtömliga skattkammare.

"Не querido ser fiel, еn estos ejercicios de ciego -dijo en una ocasión Jorge Luis Borges refiriéndose a los relatos incluidos en El libro de arena -, al ejemplo de Wells: la conjunción del estilo llano, a veces casi oral, у de un argumento imposible." El propio autor reconoce la singularidad de uno de estos relatos: "Si de todos mis textos tuviera que rescatar uno solo, rescataría, creo, "El Congreso", que es a la vez el más autobiográfico (el que prodiga más los recuerdos) у el más fantástico".

Jorge Luis Borge's Fictions introduced an entirely new voice into world literature. It is here we find the astonishing accounts of Funes, the man who can forget nothing ; the French poet who recreated Don Quixote word for word; the fatal lottery in Babylon; the mysterious planet of Tlön; and the library containing every possible book in the whole universe. Here too are the philosophical detective stories and the haunting tales of Irish revolutionaries, gaucho knife fights and dreams within dreams which proved so influential (and yet impossible to imitate). This collection was eventually to bring Borges international fame; over fifty years later, it remains endlessly intriguing.

This edition is the collection originally published in Spanish as Ficciones (1944).

Ficciones is in fact a compilation of two collections: El Jardín de senderos qui se bifurcan ("The Garden of Forking Paths"), first published in 1941, and Artificios ("Artifices"), unpublished in book form prior to 1944.

Cuento "El Aleph", de Jorge Luis Borges, originalmente publicado en el libro El Aleph, en 1949.

Though best known in the English speaking world for his short fictions and poems, Borges is revered in Latin America equally as an immensely prolific and beguiling writer of non-fiction prose. In The Total Library , more than 150 of Borges' most brilliant pieces are brought together for the first time in one volume - all in superb new translations. More than a hundred of the pieces have never previously been published in English. The Total Library presents Borges at once as a deceptively self-effacing guide to the universe and as the inventor of a universe that is an indispensible guide to Borges.

Caracterizan las paginas de "El hacedor" el cruce de generos (relatos, ensayos у poemas) у la diversidad tematica. Homero у Dante alternan con Rosas у Facundo; la fantasia que inventa laberintos ineditos, con la cronica de sucesos aparentemente triviales pero cargados de insospechadas significaciones; el particularismo criollo, con la universalidad historica que abarca tanto la simbologia oriental como la cultura europea. "De cuantos libros he entregado a la imprenta - escribio el propio Jorge Luis Borges - ninguno, creo, es tan personal como esta colectiva у desordenada "silva de varia leccion".

"El Informe Brodie" supone una evolución imprevista en la estética de Jorge Luis Borges, A diferencia de "El Aleph" y "Ficciones", que abundan en enigmas y en símbolos, los once cuentos de este volumen, fruto de la lenta madurez del gran escritor, son directos, desnudos y sencillos.

El saber y la sensibilidad de Jorge Luis Borges se hallan unidos por mil lazos con la cultura de todos los países y épocas; y su obra es universalmente reconocida como una de las escasas nuevas realidades y explorado territorios ignorados. Este volumen reúne dieciocho relatos -quizá los más eleogiados y citados sean "El Aleph", "El inmortal", "Los teólogos", "Deutsches Requiem" y "La espera"--Que muestran las posibilidades expresivas de la "estética de la inteligencia", borgiana, inimitable fusión de mentalidad matemática, profunidad metafísica y captación poética del mundo.

Everything and Nothing collects the best of Borges' highly influential work-written in the 1930s and '40s-that foresaw the internet ("Tlon, 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."

"Dreamtigers" has been heralded as one of the literary masterpieces of the twentieth century by Mortimer J. Adler, editor of "Great Books of the Western World". It has been acknowledged by its author as his most personal work. Composed of poems, parables, and stories, sketches and apocryphal quotations, "Dreamtigers" at first glance appears to be a sampler - albeit a dazzling one - of the master's work. Upon closer examination, however, the reader discovers the book to be a subtly and organically unified self-revelation. "Dreamtigers" explores the mysterious territory that lies between the dreams of the creative artist and the "real" world. The central vision of the work is that of a recluse in the "enveloping serenity" of a library, looking ahead to the time when he will have disappeared but in the timeless world of his books will continue his dialogue with the immortals of the past - Homer, Don Quixote, and Shakespeare. Like Homer, the maker of these dreams is afflicted with failing sight. Still, he dreams of tigers real and imagined and reflects upon of a life that, above all, has been intensely introspective, a life of calm self-possession and absorption in the world of the imagination. At the same time he is keenly aware of that other Borges, the public figure about whom he reads with mixed emotions: "It's the other one, it's Borges, that things happen to". First published in Buenos Aires in 1960 as "El Hacedor", "Dreamtigers" was translated into English by Mildred Boyer, professor emerita of romance languages at the University of Texas at Austin, and the poet Harold Morland. The late Miguel Enguidanos, who was Centennial Professor of Spanish at Vanderbilt University, wrote the introduction to this handsome volume, which is enhanced by woodcuts by the renowned artist Antonio Frasconi.