Though universally acclaimed for his dazzling works of fictions, Jorge Luis Borges always considered himself first and foremost a poet. This new bilingual selection brings together some two hundred poems--the largest collection of Borges' poetry ever assembled in English, including scores of poems never previously translated. Edited by Alexander Coleman, the selection draws from a lifetime's work--from Borges' first published volume of verse, Fervor de Buenos Aires (1923), to his final work, Los Conjurados, published just a year before his death in 1986. Throughout this unique collection the brilliance of the Spanish originals is matched by luminous English versions by a remarkable cast of translators, including Robert Fitzgerald, Stephen Kessler, W. S. Merwin, Alastair Reid, Mark Strand, Charles Tomlinson, and John Updike.
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

In May 2005 Penguin will publish 70 unique titles to celebrate the company's 70th birthday. The titles in the Pocket Penguins series are emblematic of the renowned breadth of quality of the Penguin list and will hark back to Penguin founder Allen Lane's vision of good books for all'. Jorge Luis Borges wrote playful and deeply imaginative short stories that explored philosophy, paradox and the nature of existence. Penguin Modern Classics publish all of his most famous works, including Labyrinths, The Aleph and Fictions. This collection includes seven classic Borges tales which intrigue, inspire and mesmerize through their singular genius.

“Believe me: the benefits of blindness have been greatly exaggerated. If I could see, I would never leave the house, I’d stay indoors reading the many books that surround me.”
Days before his death, Borges gave an intimate interview to his friend, the Argentine journalist Gloria Lopez Lecube. That interview is translated for the first time here, giving English-language readers a new insight into his life, loves, and thoughts about his work and country at the end of his life.

Accompanying that interview are a selection of the fascinating interviews he gave throughout his career. Highlights include his celebrated conversations with Richard Burgin during Borges's time as a lecturer at Harvard University, in which he gives rich new insights into his own works and the literature of others, as well as discussing his now oft-overlooked political views. The pieces combine to give a new and revealing window on one of the most celebrated cultural figures of the past century.

本书收录了博尔赫斯在哈佛大学任职期间与理查德·伯金所作的著名访谈，他曾说，“理查德·伯金让我重新认识自己。”他给出了针对自己和他人的文学作品的真知灼见，并谈到了现在常常为人忽略的诸多政治主张。而辞世前几日，他和好友莱库比曾进行过一次私密的访谈，涉及他的生活、爱以及对自己作品和国家的种种思考，也是真正意义上“最后的访谈”。这几次贯穿博尔赫斯写作生涯的访谈，为读者了解这位20世纪最著名的文化巨擘打开窗口。

`Here is a handsome edition of one of Borges' ficciones, in a translation first published in Labyrinths in 1962. It's an important story in the Borges' canon, incorporating most of the author's philosophical and esthetic preoccupations in a typically brief compass. With great solemnity and a convincing array of scholarly detail (including annotated references to imaginary books and articles), Borges contocts a fable of an alternate world and its infiltration of our own. The reality of Tlon is idealist: material objects have no existence; language has no nouns; its principal discipline is psychology, since its inhabitants see the universe as nothing but a series of mental processes. A series of 24 illustrations accompanies the text. Their disturbing resemblances to our reality make them appropriate reflections of Borges's imaginative constructs.' -- The Kingston Whig-Standard

Contents
Fictions
Tlon, uqbar, orbis, tertius
The garden of forking paths
The lottery in Babylon
Pirre menard, author of the Quixote
The circular ruins
The library of babel
Funes the memorious
The shape of the sword
Theme of the traitor and the hero
Death and the compass
The secret miracle
Three versions of Judas
The sect of the phoenix
The immortal
The theologians
Story of the warrior and the captive
Emma zunz
The house of asterion
Deutsches requiem
Averroes' search
The zahir
The waiting
The God's script
Essays
The argentine writer and tradition
The wall and the books
The fearful sphere of Pascal
Partial magic in the Quixote
Valery as symbol
Kafka and his precursors
Avatars of the tortoise
The mirror of enigmas
A note on Bernard Shaw
A new refutation of time
Parables
Inferno, I, 32
Paradise, XXXI, 108
Parable of Cervantes and the Quixote
The witness
A problem
Borges and I
Everything and nothing

“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.

Jorge Luis Borges's famous 1941 meditation on language, alphabets, and the library that contains all knowledge is an allegory of our Universe, and in this edition is complemented and enhanced by the etching of the French artist, Érik Desmazières.

Through a twist of fate that the author of "Labyrinths" himself would have relished, these lost lectures given in English at Harvard in 1967-1968 by Jorge Luis Borges return to us now, a recovered tale of a life-long love affair with literature and the English language. Transcribed from tapes only recently discovered, "This Craft of Verse" captures the cadences, candour, wit and remarkable erudition of one of the most extraordinary and enduring literary voices of the 20th century. In its wide-ranging commentary and exquisite insights, the book stands as a deeply personal yet far-reaching introduction to the pleasures of the word, and as a first-hand testimony of to the life of literature. Though his avowed topic is poetry, Borges explores subjects ranging from prose forms (especially the novel), literary history and translation theory to philosophical aspects of literature in particular and communication in general. Probably the best-read citizen of the globe in his day, he draws on a wealth of examples from literature in modern and mediaeval English, Spanish, French, Italian, German, Greek, Latin, Arabic, Hebrew and Chinese, speaking with characteristic eloquence on Plato, the Norse "kenningar", Byron, Poe, Chesterton, Joyce and Frost, as well as on translations of Homer, the Bible, and the "Rubaiyat" of Omar Khayyam. Whether discussing metaphor, epic poetry, the origins of verse, poetic meaning, or his own "poetic creed", Borges gives a performance as entertaining as it is intellectually engaging. A lesson in the love of literature and in the making of a unique literary sensibility, this is a sustained encounter with one of the writers by whom the 20th century will be long remembered.

Ficciones, libro aparecido en 1944, con el que ganó el Gran Premio de Honor de la Sociedad Argentina de Escritores, es uno de los más representativos de su
estilo. En él están algunos de sus relatos más famosos, como «Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius»; «Pierre Menard, autor del Quijote»; «La biblioteca de Babel» o «El jardín
de senderos que se bifurcan». En su caso, hablar de relatos es sólo un modo de entendernos, y a falta de un término más adecuado para designar esta magistral
y sugestiva mezcla de erudición, imaginación, ingenio, profundidad intelectual e inquietud metafísica. Metáforas como la del laberinto, la biblioteca que coincide con el universo o la de la minuciosa reescritura del Quijote, pertenecen al centro del universo borgiano y, a través de sus millones de lectores en todas las lenguas, a la cultura universal.

Days before his death, Borges gave an intimate interview to his friend, the Argentine journalist Gloria Lopez Lecube. That interview is translated for the first time here, giving English-language readers a new insight into his life, loves, and thoughts about his work and country at the end of his life.

Accompanying that interview are a selection of the fascinating interviews he gave throughout his career. Highlights include his celebrated conversations with Richard Burgin during Borges's time as a lecturer at Harvard University, in which he gives rich new insights into his own works and the literature of others, as well as discussing his now oft-overlooked political views. The pieces combine to give a new and revealing window on one of the most celebrated cultural figures of the past century.

《波赫士全集Ⅰ》第一位影響歐美文學的拉丁美洲作家，也被公認為二十世紀最博學的人之一的波赫士，簡練地勾勒著繁複多樣的魔幻寫實世界──不期而遇的錯置時空，正通往記憶與知識的邊陲，現實與異境形同鏡裡鏡外，此刻既是過去也是未來....目盲的先知在黑暗與光明間穿梭，把天堂想像成圖書館模樣，再把世界建構成一座座迷宮似的花園。正因為他，拉丁美洲文學才贏得世界聲譽，並開啟了西班牙語文的奇幻風貌。

第Ⅰ冊（1923～1949）收錄了《布宜諾斯艾利斯的激情》等最早的三本詩集；以及最足以代表魔幻寫實風格的短篇故事集：《惡棍列傳》、《虛構集》〔含《小徑分岔的花園》、《杜撰集》〕及《阿萊夫》....等。

《波赫士全集Ⅱ》作家的命運在他看來很奇特，開始總是「愛慕虛榮的巴洛克式」，多年後有可能達到的不是簡練（簡練算不了甚麼），而是「謙遜而隱蔽的複雜性」。古稀之年使他學會了心甘情願繼續做他的波 赫士。「世上的文章沒有一頁一字不是以宇宙為鑑，而宇宙最顯著的屬性便是紛紜複雜。」

第Ⅱ冊（1952～1972）收錄了具體呈現那種「簡練的繁複」的短篇故事集《布羅迪報告》；博識的散文 集《探討別集》；以及展現「語言的起源是非理性的，具有魔幻性質」、「詩歌是神秘的棋局」的 《另一個，同一個》、《影子的頌歌》、《老虎的金黃》....等知名詩集。

《波赫士全集Ⅲ》遺傳性失明讓波赫士在黑暗中透視著這世界長達三十多年。「失明是封閉狀態，但也是解放，是有利於創作的孤寂，是鑰匙和代數學。」「人人都是發現者，開始發現苦、鹹、凹陷、光滑、粗糙、彩虹的七色....，接著發現面龐、地圖、動物、天體；最後發現懷疑、信仰和幾乎完全能確定的自己的無知。」

第Ⅲ冊（1975～1985）收錄了最後的短篇故事集《沙之書》及《莎士比亞的記憶》；遊記《圖片冊》；散文集《有關但丁的隨筆九篇》；晚年詩集：《深沉的玫瑰》、《夜晚的故事》、《天數》、《密謀》....等。

《波赫士全集Ⅳ》一位王后臨終前形容自己是火與空氣，作家卻覺得自己是泥土，而且還是貧瘠的土。「然而，我仍在寫作。還能有別的甚麼選擇，別的甚麼更好的選擇？」「歷盡滄桑之後，我發現，跟幸福一樣，美是很常見的，我們沒有一天不在天堂裡面逗留片刻。」「我心裡一直在暗暗設想/天堂應該是圖書館的模樣。」

第Ⅳ冊（1975～1988）收錄了作者生前及身後的作品，包括《序言集成》；以時間為主題的《波赫士口述》五講；專欄文集《文稿拾零》；以及最晚出版的《私人藏書序言集》等。

在线阅读本书
Borges' stories have a deceptively simple, almost laconic style. In maddeningly ingenious stories that play with the very form of the short story, Borges returns again and again to his themes: dreams, labyrinths, mirrors, infinite libraries, the manipulations of chance, gaucho knife-fighters, transparent tigers and the elusive nature of identity itself.

The Book of Imaginary Beings is Borges’s whimsical compendium of more than one hundred of the "strange creatures conceived down through history by the human imagination." This unique contribution to fantasy literature ranges widely across the world’s mythologies and literatures to bring together the fantastical inventions drawn from the Kabbalah, Homer, Confucius, Shakespeare, Lewis Carroll, and Kafka, among others. Here readers will find the familiar and expected dragons, centaurs, and unicorns, as well as the less familiar and altogether unexpected Animals That Live in the Mirror, the Humbaba, the Simurgh, and other undeniably curious beasts. Throughout, Borges’s cunning and humorous commentary is sheer delight.
Andrew Hurley’s brilliant new translation is perfectly paired with original drawings from award-winning illustrator Peter Sís. The result is a wonderful gift book—an Alice Through the Looking Glass menagerie, which should appeal not only to Borges aficionados but also to fantasy fans of all stripes and ages.

Diecisiete relatos breves que abren un mundo de reflexiones sobre las convenciones de lectura y el modo de entender la realidad. <Pensé en un laberinto, en un sinuoso laberinto creciente que abarcara el pasado y el porvenir y que implicara de algún modo los astros.> Ficciones es quizá el libro más reconocido de Jorge Luis Borges. Entre los cuentos que se reúnen aquí hay algunos de corte policial, como <La muerte y la brújula>, otros sobre libros imaginarios, como <Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius>, y muchos pertenecientes al género fantástico, como <Las ruinas circulares> o <El Sur>, acaso su mejor relato, en palabras del mismo autor. Está compuesto por los libros El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan (1941) y Artificios (1944), considerados piezas fundamentales del universo borgeano. Jorge Luis Borges (Buenos Aires, 1899 ¿ Ginebra, 1986) es uno de los mayores escritores de habla hispana. Publicó libros de poesía, ensayo y cuentos, por los cuales ha obtenido renombre en todo el mundo. Recibió distinciones de universidades y gobiernos extranjeros y numerosos premios, entre los que se destaca el Cervantes en 1979.

一角獣、セイレーン、ゴーレム、八岐大蛇…。豊かな想像力が産みだした奇妙な存在たちを、知の怪物ボルヘスが集成した最良の異世界案内本。「イーリアス」「オデュッセイア」から、プリニウス「博物誌」、「千夜一夜物語」、ダンテ「神曲」、カフカ、C・S・ルイス等の著作まで、古今東西・森羅万象120項目を収載。

« Des nombreux problèmes qui exercèrent la téméraire perspicacité de Lönnrot, aucun ne fut aussi étrange - aussi rigoureusement étrange, dirons-nous - que la série périodique de meurtres qui culminèrent dans la propriété de Triste-Le-Roy, parmi l'interminable odeur des eucalyptus. Il est vrai qu'Eric Lönnrot ne réussit pas à empêcher le dernier crime, mais il est indiscutable qu'il l'avait prévu... »

Through a twist of fate that the author of "Labyrinths" himself would have relished, these lost lectures given in English at Harvard in 1967-1968 by Jorge Luis Borges return to us now, a recovered tale of a life-long love affair with literature and the English language. Transcribed from tapes only recently discovered, "This Craft of Verse" captures the cadences, candour, wit and remarkable erudition of one of the most extraordinary and enduring literary voices of the 20th century. In its wide-ranging commentary and exquisite insights, the book stands as a deeply personal yet far-reaching introduction to the pleasures of the word, and as a first-hand testimony of to the life of literature. Though his avowed topic is poetry, Borges explores subjects ranging from prose forms (especially the novel), literary history and translation theory to philosophical aspects of literature in particular and communication in general. Probably the best-read citizen of the globe in his day, he draws on a wealth of examples from literature in modern and mediaeval English, Spanish, French, Italian, German, Greek, Latin, Arabic, Hebrew and Chinese, speaking with characteristic eloquence on Plato, the Norse "kenningar", Byron, Poe, Chesterton, Joyce and Frost, as well as on translations of Homer, the Bible, and the "Rubaiyat" of Omar Khayyam. Whether discussing metaphor, epic poetry, the origins of verse, poetic meaning, or his own "poetic creed", Borges gives a performance as entertaining as it is intellectually engaging. A lesson in the love of literature and in the making of a unique literary sensibility, this is a sustained encounter with one of the writers by whom the 20th century will be long remembered.

Review
“Picture this: You’re an Argentine teenager, sitting in a lecture hall on the first day of classes, ready to learn about the history of English literature. In walks your kindly, elderly professor, and suddenly he starts speaking, about everything from The Dream of the Rood to Treasure Island, sometimes quoting entire paragraphs, without any notes whatsoever. He’s also blind (and has been for more than a decade). What would your reaction be?” (The Globe & Mail)
“Readers will probably find Professor Borges more enthralling as a document of Borges himself than as a guide to English literature. Borges’s vast erudition is felt everywhere in these pages, and he is at his best when he digresses.” (Will Glovinsky - The Rumpus)
“Borges’ delivery will engross you — he is an excellent storyteller.” (New York Daily News)
Product Description
In English at last, Borges’s erudite and entertaining lectures on English literature from Beowulf to Oscar Wilde
Writing for Harper’s Magazine, Edgardo Krebs describes Professor Borges:“A compilation of the twenty-five lectures Borges gave in 1966 at the University of Buenos Aires, where he taught English literature. Starting with the Vikings’ kennings and Beowulf and ending with Stevenson and Oscar Wilde, the book traverses a landscape of ‘precursors,’cross-cultural borrowings, and genres of expression, all connected by Borges into a vast interpretive web. This is the most surprising and useful of Borges’s works to have appeared posthumously.”
Borges takes us on a startling, idiosyncratic, fresh, and highly opinionated tour of English literature, weaving together countless cultural traditions of the last three thousand years. Borges’s lectures — delivered extempore by a man of extraordinary erudition — bring the canon to remarkably vivid life. Now translated into English for the first time, these lectures are accompanied by extensive and informative notes by the Borges scholars Martín Arias and Martín Hadis.