Set in Paraguay, this offspring of a fantastic imagination is an achievement of realism with curiously surrealist overtones.  "I don't think it would be an imprecision or a hyperbole to qualify it as perfect." Jorge Luis Borges

Ficciones es un libro de cuentos escrito por Jorge Luis Borges, publicado en 1944 y compuesto de dos partes: El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan y Artificios; posee dos prólogos. La crítica especializada lo ha aclamado como uno de los libros que ayudaron a definir el rumbo de la literatura universal del Siglo XX. Asimismo, su publicación en 1944 colocó a Borges en un primer plano de la literatura universal.Fue incluida en la lista de las 100 mejores novelas en español del siglo XX del periódico español «El Mundo»,8 así como también en la lista de los 100 libros del siglo XX del diario francés Le Monde y en los 100 mejores libros de todos los tiempos del Club de libros de Noruega.

Product Description: This volume addresses the specific subject of fatigue, a subject not familiar to many engineers, but still relevant for proper and good design of numerous steel structures. It explains all issues related to the subject: Basis of fatigue design, reliability and various verification formats, determination of stresses and stress ranges, fatigue strength, application range and limitations...read more

Product Description: Unabridged CDs, 5 CDs, 5 hours Read by George Guidall "An unparalleled treasury of marvels...Along with a tiny cohort of peers, and seers (Kafka and Joyce come to mind), Borges is more than a stunning storyteller and a brilliant stylist; he's a mirror who reflects the spirit of his time...read more

"Some of the most witty, uncannily original short fiction in Western Literature."―The New Yorker Celebrating the centennial of his birth, Everything and Nothing compiles the most anthologized and widely read fictions by Jorge Luis Borges, "a giant of world literature" (John Updike, The New Yorker). Some of the narrative pieces herein contained are: "Pierre Menard" in which a modern writer reconstructs passages from Don Quixote that are verbally identical but read differently; "The Garden of Forking Paths," an intellectual variation on the detective-story genre; and "Nightmares," a lecture which, as Alastair Reid puts it, "shifts from personal memories to writers, to an examination of other peoples' metaphors, to language itself." Everything and Nothing serves as a perfect introduction to Borges's genius.

Product Description: Stevenson, a diferencia de muchos otros escritores, creo moralidades y tramas en sus fabulas. El no fue un hombre religioso. Fue algo mas, un hombre etico. Cada fabula de este libro tiene su propio estilo y vocabulario: algunas son coloquiales, otras son intemporales y podrian ser muy antiguas...read more

Product Description: These wide-ranging conversations have an exceptionally open and intimate tone, giving us a personal glimpse of one of the most fascinating figures in contemporary world literature.Interviewer Fernando Sorrentino, an Argentinian writer and anthologist, is endowed with literary acumen, sensitivity, urbanity, and an encyclopedic memory of Jorge Luis Borges' work (in his prologue, Borges jokes that Sorrentino knows his work "much better than I do")...read more

Product Description: Autor de celebres cuentos y ensayos que modificaron radicalmente la literatura en castellano, Jorege Luis Borges logro hacia el final de su vida esa dificil forma de la perfeccion que consiste en describir con sencillez hechos portentosos...read more

Product Description: Jorge Luis Borges y Margarita Guerrero hacen una recreación de las experiencias literarias, filosóficas y aun teológicas, de textos históricos y sagrados chinos e hindúes o incluso europeos medievales, que recogen mitos y concepciones fantásticas.

Product Description: A 668 page book published in 2009 in Argentina which includes articles of literary criticism written from 1975-1988. It is a selection of prologues written by Borges, Casares, Bradbury, Carlyle and others

Product Description: Part one of a multiple part book series of short stories written by Jorge Luis Borges.

A new edition of a classic work by a late forefront Argentinean writer features the 1964 augmented original text and is complemented by a biographical essay, a tribute to the writer's body of work, and a chronology of his life. Reprint.

Product Description: 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...read more