Arte Poetica: Seis Conferencias (Letras de Humanidad) (Spanish Edition)
by Jorge Luis Borges
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"El lector tiene en sus manos un libro inedito de Jorge Luis Borges, integrado por seis conferencias sobre poesia pronunciadas en ingles en la Universidad de Harvard durante el curso 1967-1968. A lo largo de unas paginas tan brillantes y precisas que cuesta creer que fuesen dichas -y no leidas-, un Borges en la plenitud de su talento reflexiona sobre los misterios y tesoros de la palabra poetica. A traves de un torrente de autores, libros, citas, evocados puntualmente por la prodigiosa show more memoria del escritor argentino, esta Arte poetica nos revela el credo literario de uno de los grandes fabuladores del siglo XX." show lessTags
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Libro integrado por seis conferencias sobre poesía, pronunciadas por Jorge Luis Borges en inglés en la Universidad de Harvard durante el curso 1967-1968. A lo largo de unas páginas tan brillantes y precisas que cuesta creer que fuesen dichas -y no leídas-, un Borges en la plenitud de su talento reflexiona sobre los misterios y tesoros de la palabra poética. En la línea del ensayo imaginativo y suavemente irónico de sus mejors inquisiciones, estas conferencias deslumbrantes nos recuerdan, entre otras cosas, el especial atractivo de ciertas metáforas, la fuerza y la dignidad de la épica (a juicio de Borges, género narrativo preferible a la novela), la belleza que se esconde en las traducciones más felices, la corta distancia show more que media entre buen poema y el malo, o la impronta que la tradición deja sobre cada imagen, cada palabra y cada lector. A través de un torrente de autores, libros y citas, evocados puntualmente por la prodigiosa memoria del escritor argentino, esta Arte poética nos revela el credo literario, de uno de los grandes fabuladores del siglo XX. show less
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Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1899, Jorge Borges was educated by an English governess and later studied in Europe. He returned to Buenos Aires in 1921, where he helped to found several avant-garde literary periodicals. In 1955, after the fall of Juan Peron, whom he vigorously opposed, he was appointed director of the Argentine National show more Library. With Samuel Beckett he was awarded the $10,000 International Publishers Prize in 1961, which helped to establish him as one of the most prominent writers in the world. Borges regularly taught and lectured throughout the United States and Europe. His ideas have been a profound influence on writers throughout the Western world and on the most recent developments in literary and critical theory. A prolific writer of essays, short stories, and plays, Borges's concerns are perhaps clearest in his stories. He regarded people's endeavors to understand an incomprehensible world as fiction; hence, his fiction is metaphysical and based on what he called an esthetics of the intellect. Some critics have called him a mystic of the intellect. Dreamtigers (1960) is considered a masterpiece. A central image in Borges's work is the labyrinth, a mental and poetic construct, that he considered a universe in miniature, which human beings build and therefore believe they control but which nevertheless traps them. In spite of Borges's belief that people cannot understand the chaotic world, he continually attempted to do so in his writing. Much of his work deals with people's efforts to find the center of the labyrinth, symbolic of achieving understanding of their place in a mysterious universe. In such later works as The Gold of the Tigers, Borges wrote of his lifelong descent into blindness and how it affected his perceptions of the world and himself as a writer. Borges died in Geneva in 1986. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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