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“Uno de los artistas contemporáneos más memorables… La deuda que tenemos contraída con él quienes escribimos en español es enorme”. —Mario Vargas Llosa

Considerado uno de los escritores más influyentes del siglo XX en cualquier idioma, la obra de Jorge Luis Borges continúa inspirando a nuevas...

An unprecedented collection of the visionary Argentine writer’s meditations on the mystical realm
 
Jorge Luis Borges immersed himself and his readers in metaphysical fantasies—playing reason against faith, belief against logic. His profound knowledge of eastern religions was an endless source of...

"It is with particular interest... that we greet the publication of New Islands, a slim book of evocative, haunting stories by Maria Luisa Bombal, a Chilean writer whose creative period was basically confined to the 1930's and 40's and whose work, although small in volume, was rich in its effects...

Jorge Luis Borges was one of those very rare creators who changed the face of an art form—in his case, the short story. His work has been paid the ultimate honor of being appropriated and imitated by innumerable writers on every continent of the world.

The seventeen brief masterpieces of FICCIONES...

The complete sonnets of one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century—in English and Spanish

This landmark collection brings together for the first time in any language all of the sonnets of one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. More intimate and personally revealing than his...

In his writing, Borges always combined high seriousness with a wicked sense of fun. Here he reveals his delight in re-creating (or making up) colorful stories from the Orient, the Islamic world, and the Wild West, as well as his horrified fascination with knife fights, political and personal...

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...

Wash Your Needless Soda Down as Anton is issue 3 of 4ink7. Contributors include Sybil Baker, Terry Barr, Jorge Luis Borges, Ashley Chambers, Sheldon Lee Compton, Jack Harvey, Monica Hileman, Kaitlin Jennrich, Carrie Meadows, Charles O'Hay, Chad Prevost, Sally Roundhouse, Robert Joe Stout, and...

At the age of seventy, after a gap of twenty years, Jorge Luis Borges returned to writing short stories. In Brodie’s Report, he returned also to the style of his earlier years with its brutal realism, nightmares, and bloodshed. Many of these stories, including “Unworthy” and “The Other Duel,” are...

«Afirmar que el universo es limitado es una herejía; afirmar que es ilimitado, también; afirmar que no es ni lo uno ni lo otro es asimismo herético.»

El budismo ocupa un lugar central en el conjunto de la obra de Borges. La percepción del cosmos como un laberinto o una paradoja, la negación del Yo...