Biblioteket i Babel : en antologi sammanställd ur novellsamlingarna Ficciones och El Aleph
by Jorge Luis Borges
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В своих фантастических построениях автор опирался на метафизику, этику и эстетику Шопенгауэра, на идеи, восходящие к восточной философии, к Ведам и Упанишадам. Произведения, вошедшие в книгу, открывают перед читателем уникальный мир великого писателя.Tags
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El hecho de que el género literario que yo prefiera sea la enciclopedia se debe a varias razones. Una, que es honrosa: mi curiosidad; otra, que es menos honrosa: mi haraganería. Pero la más importante de todas, quizá sea esta: la cuota de sorpresa, de suspenso, como se dice ahora, que hay en las enciclopedias. En un libro se sabe con antelación lo que se encontrará; es decir, que uno sabe que le espera tal o cual cosa de acuerdo al tipo de libro que se haya elegido. Esto no sucede en una enciclopedia, ya que está regida por el orden alfabético que sencillamente es un desorden, sobre todo si uno piensa en los temas.
Oct 17, 2021Spanish
Il volume è una piccola Enciclopedia “borgesiana” ricavata dai suoi scritti e soprattutto dalle interviste
Sep 20, 2017Italian
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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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- A/Z (La Biblioteca de Babel) (La Biblioteca de Babel)
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- 1962 (English) (English)
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- Fiction and Literature, General Fiction
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- 839.78 — Literature & rhetoric German & related literatures Other Germanic literatures Swedish literature Swedish miscellany
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- PQ7797 .B635 .A6 — Language and Literature French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese literatures Spanish literature Provincial, local, colonial, etc. Spanish America
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