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The Aleph and Other Stories
by Jorge Luis Borges, Andrew Hurley

ISBN 0142437883 (0-14-243788-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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Full of philosophical puzzles and supernatural surprises, these stories contain some of Borgess most fully realized human characters. With uncanny insight he takes us inside the minds of an unrepentant Nazi, an imprisoned Mayan priest, fanatical Christian theologians, a woman plotting vengeance on her fathers killer, and a man awaiting his assassin in a Buenos Aires guest house. This volume also contains the hauntingly brief vignettes about literary imagination and personal identity collected in The Maker, which Borges wrote as failing eyesight and public fame began to undermine his sense of self.

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The Aleph and Other Stories, 1933-1969: Together with Commentaries and an Autobiographical Essay
by Jorge Luis Borges

ISBN 0525484442 (0-525-48444-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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  Hardcover, E. P. Dutton
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Argentina, 1516-1987: From Spanish Colonization to Alfonsin
by David Rock

ISBN 0520061780 (0-520-06178-0)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr

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In this comprehensive history, updated to include the climactic events of the five years since the Falklands War, Professor Rock documents the early colonial history of Argentina, pointing to the colonial forms established during the Spanish conquest as the source for Argentina's continued reliance on foreign commercial and investment partnerships. The collapse of Argentina's close western European ties after World War II is thus seen as the underlying cause for her current economic and political crisis.
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Artificios
by Jorge Luis Borges

ISBN 8420646067 (84-206-4606-7)
Softcover, Aims Intl Books Corp

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Blow-Up
by Julio Cortazar

ISBN 0394728815 (0-394-72881-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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The Book of Sand
by Jorge Luis Borges

ISBN 0525475400 (0-525-47540-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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Collected Fictions
by Andrew Hurley, Jorge Luis Borges

ISBN 0140286802 (0-14-028680-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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Although Jorge Luis Borges published his first book in 1923--doling out his own money for a limited edition of Fervor de Buenos Aires--he remained in Argentinian obscurity for almost three decades. In 1951, however, Ficciones appeared in French, followed soon after by an English translation. This collection, which included the cream of the author's short fictions, made it clear that Borges was a world-class (if highly unclassifiable) artist--a brilliant, lyrical miniaturist, who could pose the great questions of existence on the head of pin. And by 1961, when he shared the French Prix Formentor with Samuel Beckett, he seemed suddenly to tower over a half-dozen literary cultures, the very exemplar of modernism with a human face.
By the time of his death in 1986, Borges had been granted old master status by almost everybody (except, alas, the gentlemen of the Swedish Academy). Yet his work remained dispersed among a half-dozen different collections, some of them increasingly hard to find. Andrew Hurley has done readers a great service, then, by collecting all the stories in a single, meticulously translated volume. It's a pleasure to be reminded that Borges's style--poetic, dreamlike, and compounded of innumerable small surprises--was already in place by 1935, when he published A Universal History of Iniquity: "The earth we inhabit is an error, an incompetent parody. Mirrors and paternity are abominable because they multiply and affirm it." (Incidentally, the thrifty author later recycled the second of these aphorisms in his classic bit of bookish metaphysics, "Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Teris.") The glories of his middle period, of course, have hardly aged a day. "The Garden of the Forking Paths" remains the best deconstruction of the detective story ever written, even in the post-Auster era, and "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote" puts the so-called death of the author in pointed, hilarious perspective.
But Hurley's omnibus also brings home exactly how consistent Borges remained in his concerns. As late as 1975, in "Avelino Arredondo," he was still asking (and occasionally even answering) the same riddles about time and its human repository, memory: "For the man in prison, or the blind man, time flows downstream as though down a slight decline. As he reached the midpoint of his reclusion, Arredondo more than once achieved that virtually timeless time. In the first patio there was a wellhead, and at the bottom, a cistern where a toad lived; it never occurred to Arredondo that it was the toad's time, bordering on eternity, that he sought." Throughout, Hurley's translation is crisp and assured (although this reader will always have a soft spot for "Funes, the Memorious" rather than "Funes, His Memory.") And thanks to his efforts, Borgesians will find no better--and no more pleasurable--rebuttal of the author's description of himself as "a shy sort of man who could not bring himself to write short stories." --James Marcus [via]
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Collected Fictions
by Jorge Luis Borges, Andrew Hurley

ISBN 0670849707 (0-670-84970-7)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

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Although Jorge Luis Borges published his first book in 1923--doling out his own money for a limited edition of Fervor de Buenos Aires--he remained in Argentinian obscurity for almost three decades. In 1951, however, Ficciones appeared in French, followed soon after by an English translation. This collection, which included the cream of the author's short fictions, made it clear that Borges was a world-class (if highly unclassifiable) artist--a brilliant, lyrical miniaturist, who could pose the great questions of existence on the head of pin. And by 1961, when he shared the French Prix Formentor with Samuel Beckett, he seemed suddenly to tower over a half-dozen literary cultures, the very exemplar of modernism with a human face.
By the time of his death in 1986, Borges had been granted old master status by almost everybody (except, alas, the gentlemen of the Swedish Academy). Yet his work remained dispersed among a half-dozen different collections, some of them increasingly hard to find. Andrew Hurley has done readers a great service, then, by collecting all the stories in a single, meticulously translated volume. It's a pleasure to be reminded that Borges's style--poetic, dreamlike, and compounded of innumerable small surprises--was already in place by 1935, when he published A Universal History of Iniquity: "The earth we inhabit is an error, an incompetent parody. Mirrors and paternity are abominable because they multiply and affirm it." (Incidentally, the thrifty author later recycled the second of these aphorisms in his classic bit of bookish metaphysics, "Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Teris.") The glories of his middle period, of course, have hardly aged a day. "The Garden of the Forking Paths" remains the best deconstruction of the detective story ever written, even in the post-Auster era, and "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote" puts the so-called death of the author in pointed, hilarious perspective.
But Hurley's omnibus also brings home exactly how consistent Borges remained in his concerns. As late as 1975, in "Avelino Arredondo," he was still asking (and occasionally even answering) the same riddles about time and its human repository, memory: "For the man in prison, or the blind man, time flows downstream as though down a slight decline. As he reached the midpoint of his reclusion, Arredondo more than once achieved that virtually timeless time. In the first patio there was a wellhead, and at the bottom, a cistern where a toad lived; it never occurred to Arredondo that it was the toad's time, bordering on eternity, that he sought." Throughout, Hurley's translation is crisp and assured (although this reader will always have a soft spot for "Funes, the Memorious" rather than "Funes, His Memory.") And thanks to his efforts, Borgesians will find no better--and no more pleasurable--rebuttal of the author's description of himself as "a shy sort of man who could not bring himself to write short stories." --James Marcus [via]
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Dreamtigers
by Jorge Luis Borges

ISBN 0292715498 (0-292-71549-8)
Softcover, Univ of Texas Pr

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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, Dreamtigers at first glance appears to be a sampler--albeit a dazzling one--of the master's work. Upon closer examination, however, the reader discovers the book to be a subtly and organically unified self-revelation.

Dreamtigers explores the mysterious territory that lies between the dreams of the creative artist and the "real" world. The central vision of the work is that of a recluse in the "enveloping serenity " of a library, looking ahead to the time when he will have disappeared but in the timeless world of his books will continue his dialogue with the immortals of the past -- Homer, Don Quixote, Shakespeare. Like Homer, the maker of these dreams is afflicted with failing sight. Still, he dreams of tigers real and imagined and reflects upon of a life that, above all, has been intensely introspective, a life of calm self-possession and absorption in the world of the imagination. At the same time he is keenly aware of that other Borges, the public figure about whom he reads with mixed emotions: "It's the other one, it's Borges, that things happen to."
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El Aleph
by Jorge Luis Borges

ISBN 9500425998 (950-04-2599-8)
Softcover, Emece

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El trabajo que da titulo a Historia de la eternidad se ocupa del tiempo y de su negacion y examina dos concepciones contrapuestas de eternidad: la alejandrina, de raiz platonica, y la cristiana, nacida con la doctrina trinitaria de Ireneo y formalizada por San Agustin. Otras dos penetrantes digresiones estudian la doctrina de Nietzsche sobre el eterno retorno y las concepciones basadas en el caracter recurrente del movimiento historico. El examen de las versiones clÃÂÃÂ¡sicas de Las 1001 noches ilustra los condicionamientos culturales e historicos de la labor de traduccion. [via]
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El Beso De La Mujer Arana / Kiss of the Spider Woman
by Manuel Puig

ISBN 8432216143 (84-322-1614-3)
Softcover, Planeta Pub Corp

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"Kiss of the Spider Woman" is a sharply provocative tale of love, victimization, and fantasy, and of the friendship that develops between two strikingly different men imprisoned together in a Latin American jail. [via]
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El Hacedor
by Jorge Luis Borges

ISBN 8420614076 (84-206-1407-6)
Hardcover, Alianza Editorial

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El Libro De Arena
by Borges

ISBN 8420633135 (84-206-3313-5)
Softcover, Alianza Editorial Sa

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This title is out of print. [via]
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El Libro De Los Seres Imaginarios
by Jorge Luis Borges, Margarita Guerrero

ISBN 9500409577 (950-04-0957-7)
Softcover, Planeta Pub Corp

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Ciento dieciseis seres imaginarios pueblan las paginas de este libro. Jorge Luis Borges los ha hecho venir de todos los rincones del mundo y la Mitología.¿ Pero, hasta donde son realmente imaginarios? Mística, metafísica, poesía, viejos relatos y realidades. [via]
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Facundo
by Domingof Sarmiento, Ilan Stavans, Mary Tyler Peabody Mann

ISBN 0140436774 (0-14-043677-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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Facundo
by Sarmiento

ISBN 843760933X (84-376-0933-X)
Softcover, Catedra Ediciones

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Facundo: Civilization and Barbarism
by Domingof Sarmiento, Kathleen Ross, Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria

ISBN 0520239806 (0-520-23980-6)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr

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A classic work of Latin American literature, Domingo Sarmiento's Facundo has become an integral part of the history, politics, and culture of Latin America since its first publication in 1845. Partially translated into English when it was first published, this foundational text appears here for the first time in its entirety.
An educator and writer, Sarmiento was President of Argentina from 1868 to 1874. His Facundo is a study of the Argentine character, a prescription for the modernization of Latin America, and a protest against the tyranny of the government of Juan Manuel de Rosas (1835-1852). The book brings nineteenth-century Latin American history to life even as it raises questions still being debated today--questions regarding the "civilized" city versus the "barbaric" countryside, the treatment of indigenous and African populations, and the classically liberal plan of modernization. Facundo's celebrated and frequently anthologized portraits of the caudillo Juan Facundo Quiroga and other colorful characters give readers an exhilarating sense of Argentine culture in the making.
Kathleen Ross's translation renders Sarmiento's passionate prose into English with all its richness intact, allowing the English-language reader the full experience of Facundo's intensity and historical reach.
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Ficciones
by Jorge Luis Borges, John Sturrock

ISBN 0679422994 (0-679-42299-4)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group

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Reading Jorge Luis Borges is an experience akin to having the top of one's head removed for repairs. First comes the unfamiliar breeze tickling your cerebral cortex; then disorientation, even mild discomfort; and finally, the sense that the world has been irrevocably altered--and in this case, rendered infinitely more complex. First published in 1945, his Ficciones compressed several centuries' worth of philosophy and poetry into 17 tiny, unclassifiable pieces of prose. He offered up diabolical tigers, imaginary encyclopedias, ontological detective stories, and scholarly commentaries on nonexistent books, and in the process exploded all previous notions of genre. Would any of David Foster Wallace's famous footnotes be possible without Borges? Or, for that matter, the syntactical games of Perec, the metafictional pastiche of Calvino? For good or for ill, the blind Argentinian paved the way for a generation's worth of postmodern monkey business--and fiction will never be simply "fiction" again.
Its enormous influence on writers aside, Ficciones has also--perhaps more importantly--changed the way that we read. Borges's Pierre Menard, for instance, undertakes the most audacious project imaginable: to create not a contemporary version of Cervantes's most famous work but the Quixote itself, word for word. This second text is "verbally identical" to the original, yet, because of its new associations, "infinitely richer"; every time we read, he suggests, we are in effect creating an entirely new text, simply by viewing it through the distorting lens of history. "A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships," Borges once wrote in an essay about George Bernard Shaw. "All men who repeat one line of Shakespeare are William Shakespeare," he tells us in "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius." In this spirit, Borges is not above impersonating, even quoting, himself.
It is hard, exactly, to say what all of this means, at least in any of the usual ways. Borges wrote not with an ideological agenda, but with a kind of radical philosophical playfulness. Labyrinths, libraries, lotteries, doubles, dreams, mirrors, heresiarchs: these are the tokens with which he plays his ontological games. In the end, ideas themselves are less important to him than their aesthetic and imaginative possibilities. Like the idealist philosophers of Tlön, Borges does not "seek for the truth or even for verisimilitude, but rather for the astounding"; for him as for them, "metaphysics is a branch of fantastic literature." --Mary Park [via]
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Fictions
by Jorge Luis Borges, Anthony Kerrigan

ISBN 0714540838 (0-7145-4083-8)
Softcover, Riverrun Pr

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Reading Jorge Luis Borges is an experience akin to having the top of one's head removed for repairs. First comes the unfamiliar breeze tickling your cerebral cortex; then disorientation, even mild discomfort; and finally, the sense that the world has been irrevocably altered--and in this case, rendered infinitely more complex. First published in 1945, his Ficciones compressed several centuries' worth of philosophy and poetry into 17 tiny, unclassifiable pieces of prose. He offered up diabolical tigers, imaginary encyclopedias, ontological detective stories, and scholarly commentaries on nonexistent books, and in the process exploded all previous notions of genre. Would any of David Foster Wallace's famous footnotes be possible without Borges? Or, for that matter, the syntactical games of Perec, the metafictional pastiche of Calvino? For good or for ill, the blind Argentinian paved the way for a generation's worth of postmodern monkey business--and fiction will never be simply "fiction" again.
Its enormous influence on writers aside, Ficciones has also--perhaps more importantly--changed the way that we read. Borges's Pierre Menard, for instance, undertakes the most audacious project imaginable: to create not a contemporary version of Cervantes's most famous work but the Quixote itself, word for word. This second text is "verbally identical" to the original, yet, because of its new associations, "infinitely richer"; every time we read, he suggests, we are in effect creating an entirely new text, simply by viewing it through the distorting lens of history. "A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships," Borges once wrote in an essay about George Bernard Shaw. "All men who repeat one line of Shakespeare are William Shakespeare," he tells us in "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius." In this spirit, Borges is not above impersonating, even quoting, himself.
It is hard, exactly, to say what all of this means, at least in any of the usual ways. Borges wrote not with an ideological agenda, but with a kind of radical philosophical playfulness. Labyrinths, libraries, lotteries, doubles, dreams, mirrors, heresiarchs: these are the tokens with which he plays his ontological games. In the end, ideas themselves are less important to him than their aesthetic and imaginative possibilities. Like the idealist philosophers of Tlön, Borges does not "seek for the truth or even for verisimilitude, but rather for the astounding"; for him as for them, "metaphysics is a branch of fantastic literature." --Mary Park [via]
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Hopscotch
by Gregory Rabassa, Julio Cortazar

ISBN 0394752848 (0-394-75284-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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Translated by Gregory Rabassa, winner of the National Book Award for Translation, 1967

Horacio Oliveira is an Argentinian writer who lives in Paris with his mistress, La Maga, surrounded by a loose-knit circle of bohemian friends who call themselves "the Club." A child's death and La Maga's disappearance put an end to his life of empty pleasures and intellectual acrobatics, and prompt Oliveira to return to Buenos Aires, where he works by turns as a salesman, a keeper of a circus cat which can truly count, and an attendant in an insane asylum. Hopscotch is the dazzling, freewheeling account of Oliveira's astonishing adventures. [via]
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Hopscotch
by Julio Cortazar

ISBN 0380003724 (0-380-00372-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins

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This is the tragic history of two men and their circle of friends who live in Buenos Aires and Paris. Anticipating the age of the Web with a non-structure that allows readers to take the chapters in any order they wish, the book invites them to be the architects of the novel themselves. [via]
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Imagining Argentina
by Lawrence Thornton

ISBN 0553345796 (0-553-34579-6)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group

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Imagining Argentina is set in the dark days of the late 1970's, when thousands of Argentineans disappeared without a trace into the general's prison cells and torture chambers. When Carlos Ruweda's wife is suddenly taken from him, he discovers a magical gift: In waking dreams, he had clear visions of the fates of "the disappeared." But he cannot "imagine" what has happened to his own wife. Driven to near madness, his mind cannot be taken away: imagination, stories, and the mystical secrets of the human spirit. [via]
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In Patagonia
by Bruce Chatwin, Nicholas Shakespeare

ISBN 0142437190 (0-14-243719-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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VERY GOOD [via]
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The Invention of Morel
by Adolfo Bioy Casares, Ruth L.C. Simms, Ruth L. C.L Simms, Norah Borges De Torre, Jorge Luis Borges, Suzanne Jill Levine

ISBN 1590170571 (1-59017-057-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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Jorge Luis Borges declared The Invention of Morel a masterpiece of plotting, comparable to The Turn of The Screw and Journey to the Center of the Earth. Set on a mysterious island, Bioy's novella is a story of suspense and exploration, as well as a wonderfully unlikely romance, in which every detail is at once crystal clear and deeply mysterious.

Inspired by Bioy Casares's fascination with the movie star Louise Brooks, The Invention of Morel has gone on to live a secret life of its own. Greatly admired by Julio Cortázar, Gabriel García Márquez, and Octavio Paz, the novella helped to usher in Latin American fiction's now famous postwar boom. As the model for Alain Resnais and Alain Robbe-Grillet's Last Year in Marienbad, it also changed the history of film. [via]
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The Invention of Morel and Other Stories, from LA Trama Celeste
by Adolfo Bioy Casares

ISBN 0292738404 (0-292-73840-4)
Softcover, Univ of Texas Pr

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Jorge Luis Borges: El Aleph/ Ficciones/ Antologia Poetica / El Aleph/ Fictions/ Poetic Anthology
by Jorge Luis Borges

ISBN 1853995908 (1-85399-590-8)
Softcover, Duckbacks

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Kiss of the Spider Woman
by Manuel Puig

ISBN 0393311481 (0-393-31148-1)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc

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Sometimes they talk all night long. In the still darkness of their cell, Molina re-weaves the glittering and fragile stories of the film he loves, and the cynical Valentin listens. Valentin believes in the just cause which makes all suffering bearable; Molina believes in the magic of love which makes all else endurable. Each has always been alone, and always - especially now - in danger of betrayal. But in cell 7 each surrenders to the other something of himself that he has never surrendered before. [via]
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Kiss of the Spider Woman: The Musical
by Fred Ebb, John Kander

ISBN 0634084763 (0-634-08476-3)
Softcover, Hal Leonard Corp

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(Vocal Selections). 11 compositions from this musical drama of transformation in a Latin American prison. Includes: Anything for Him * The Day After That * Dear One * Dressing Them Up * I Do Miracles * Kiss of the Spider Woman * The Morphine Tango 1 * Only in the Movies * Over the Wall 2 * She's a Woman * Where You Are. [via]
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LA Invencion De Morel
by Adolfo Bioy Casares

ISBN 0140260846 (0-14-026084-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings
by Jorge Luis Borges, Donald A. Yates, James E. Irby, William Gibson

ISBN 0811216993 (0-8112-1699-3)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc

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If Jorge Luis Borges had been a computer scientist, he probably would have invented hypertext and the World Wide Web.
Instead, being a librarian and one of the world's most widely read people, he became the leading practitioner of a densely layered imaginistic writing style that has been imitated throughout this century, but has no peer (although Umberto Eco sometimes comes close, especially in Name of the Rose).
Borges's stories are redolent with an intelligence, wealth of invention, and a tight, almost mathematically formal style that challenge with mysteries and paradoxes revealed only slowly after several readings. Highly recommended to anyone who wants their imagination and intellect to be aswarm with philosophical plots, compelling conundrums, and a wealth of real and imagined literary references derived from an infinitely imaginary library. [via]
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Land That Lost Its Heroes: Argentina, the Falklands, and Alfonsin
by Jimmy Burns

ISBN 0747501114 (0-7475-0111-4)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square

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Life in the Argentine Republic in the Days of the Tyrant or Civilization and Barbarism
by Domingof Sarmiento

ISBN 0028516508 (0-02-851650-8)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster

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Life in the Argentine Republic in the Days of the Tyrants, Or, Civilization and Barbarism
by Domingo Faustino Sarmiento

ISBN 0879684038 (0-87968-403-8)
Hardcover, Gordon Press

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Motorcycle Diaries: A Journey Around South America
by Ernesto Guevara, Ann Wright

ISBN 1859840663 (1-85984-066-3)
Softcover, Verso Books

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In January 1952, two young men from Buenos Aires set out to explore South America on an ancient Norton motorbike. The journey lasted six months and took them thousands of miles, all the way from Argentina to Venezuela. En route, there was disasters and discoveries, high drama, low comedy, fights, parties and a lot of serious drinking. They met an extraordinary range of people: native indians and copper miners, lepers, police, wanderers and tourists. They became stowaways, firemen and football coaches, and joined in a strike. They sometimes fell in love, and frequently fell off the motorbike. Both of them kept diaries. One of them was a tall and good-looking medical student called Ernest Guevara de la Serna. Using the standard Argentinean nickname, others would sometimes refer to the two companions as Big Che and Little Che. In Ernesto's case, the nickname stuck. Within a decade the whole world would know Che Guevara. This is the story of that remarkable journey, eight years before the Cuban Revolution, in Che's own words, and illustrated with contemporary photographs. For Che, it was a formative experience, and amidst the humour and pathos of the tale, there are examples of his idealism and his solidarity with the poor and the oppressed. But it is far from being the diary of a militant, and sometimes very far from being "political correct", which may be the reason that the manuscript has only been made available now, a quarter century after Che's death in the Bolivian jungle. Instead, it is a record kept by an exuberant, intelligent and observant 23-year-old, describing what might have been the adventure of a lifetime - had his lifetime not turned into a much greater adventure. [via]
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The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey
by Ernesto Guevara, Cintio Vitier

ISBN 1876175702 (1-876175-70-2)
Softcover, Ocean Pr

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The book of the popular movie

STARRING GAEL GARCIA BERNAL

NOW A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

The young Che Guevaras lively and highly entertaining travel diary.This new, expanded edition features exclusive, unpublished photos taken by the 23-year-old Ernesto on his journey across a continent, and a tender preface by Aleida Guevara, offering an insightful perspective on the man and the icon.

As his journey progresses, Guevaras voice seems to deepen, to darken, colored by what he witnesses in his travels. He is still poetic, but now he comments on what he sees, though still poetically, with a new awareness of the social and political ramifications of whats going on around him.January Magazine

A journey, a number of journeys. Ernesto Guevara in search of adventure, Ernesto Guevara in search of America, Ernesto Guevara in search of Che. On this journey of journeys, solitude found solidarity, I turned into we. Eduardo Galeano

When I read these notes for the first time, I was quite young myself and I immediately identified with this man who narrated his adventures in such a spontaneous manner& To tell you the truth, the more I read, the more I was in love with the boy my father had been& Aleida Guevara

Our film is about a young man, Che, falling in love with a continent and finding his place in it. Walter Salles, director of The Motorcycle Diaries.

Also available in Spanish: DIARIOS DE MOTOCICLETA (978-1-920888-11-4)

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Rayuela
by Julio Cortazar

ISBN 8420602663 (84-206-0266-3)
Softcover, Alianza Editorial Sa

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A must-have classic of Latin American literature. Horacio Oliveira is an Argentinean writer who lives in Paris with his mistress, La Maga, surrounded by a loose-knit circle of bohemian friends who call themselves The Club." A child's death and La Maga's disappearance put an end to his life of empty pleasures and intellectual acrobatics, and returns to Buenos Aires. Rayuela is the dazzling, free-wheeling account of his astonishing adventures.
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Es reconocida corno la obra maestra de Julio Cortazar. De entrada, el nos propone elegir uno de los dos accesos: leer en el orden acostumbrado y acabar en el capitulo 56 (al que siguen mas capitulos, que denomina como prescindibles), o bien, seguir el tablero de direccion, que nos remite de un capitulo a otro, pasando por variadas trampas o juegos: una omision aparente, un doble y significativo envio... Esto nos ofrece, en principio, dos libros distintos. Rayuela, sin embargo, se bifurca a su vez en dos ambientes fisicos: el Del lado de alla, en Paris, con la relacion de Oliveira y la Maga, el club de la serpiente, el primer descenso a los infiernos de Horacio, etcetera; y el Del lado de aqui, en Buenos Aires, con el encuentro de Traveler y Talita, el circo, el manicomio, el segundo descenso... Estilo y estructura, dice Nabokov, hacen la novela. La perfeccion que alcanzan en RayueIa nos coloca (y esto fue claro desde que vio la luz, en 1963) ante una de las mejores novelas escritas en nuestra lengua. [via]
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Santa Evita
by Tomas Eloy Martinez, Helen Lane

ISBN 0679447040 (0-679-44704-0)
Hardcover, Random House Inc

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Among the great corpses of our age are Lenin, Mao Zedong and Stalin. Mao, at least, is still on view for the masses to see, some two decades after his demise. But no corpse engendered as much intrigue as that of Eva Peron. Elevated to near sainthood in Argentina after her death in 1952, her perfectly preserved corpse was seized by the Argentine Army following the ouster of her husband in 1955. By then, her corpse was the equivalent of a sacred relic, and while army officials wanted to keep it out of the hands of Peronists, they were loath to destroy the corpse for fear of the wrath that might follow. Tomas Eloy Martinez has reassembled the story of the corpse of Eve Peron in Santa Evita, and in the process, produced a riveting, rich book that not only tells the tale of one of the more bizarre sagas in the history of South American politics, but that also gets to the heart of the age-old human impulse to create myths and tell stories. [via]
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Santa Evita
by Helen Lane, Tomas Eloy Martinez

ISBN 0679768149 (0-679-76814-9)
Softcover, Vintage Books

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Among the great corpses of our age are Lenin, Mao Zedong and Stalin. Mao, at least, is still on view for the masses to see, some two decades after his demise. But no corpse engendered as much intrigue as that of Eva Peron. Elevated to near sainthood in Argentina after her death in 1952, her perfectly preserved corpse was seized by the Argentine Army following the ouster of her husband in 1955. By then, her corpse was the equivalent of a sacred relic, and while army officials wanted to keep it out of the hands of Peronists, they were loath to destroy the corpse for fear of the wrath that might follow. Tomas Eloy Martinez has reassembled the story of the corpse of Eve Peron in Santa Evita, and in the process, produced a riveting, rich book that not only tells the tale of one of the more bizarre sagas in the history of South American politics, but that also gets to the heart of the age-old human impulse to create myths and tell stories. [via]
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Selected Poems
by Alexander Coleman, Jorge Luis Borges

ISBN 0670849413 (0-670-84941-3)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA

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Selected Poems
by Jorge Luis Borges, Alexander Coleman

ISBN 0140587217 (0-14-058721-7)
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During his life, Jorge Luis Borges wore many hats. He was, variously, a poet, an essayist, a short-story writer, a librarian, and, for a short time, a poultry inspector. Born in Argentina in 1899, he lived for several years in Europe before eventually returning home to Buenos Aires in the early 1920s. It was here that Borges started his career as a writer. At the age of 24, he published his first volume of poetry, and though he would go on to garner considerable acclaim as an essayist and crafter of fiction, he always considered himself first and foremost a poet. This bilingual edition of Selected Poems, edited by Alexander Coleman, gathers together 200 poems from different periods of Borges's life, including some that will be appearing in English for the first time.
Whether he was writing fiction, essays, or poetry, there were certain themes and subjects that Borges returned to time and again. His home town became a favorite topic--in his first collection, Fervor de Buenos Aires, he wrote: "My soul is in the streets / of Buenos Aires," a sentiment that remained constant throughout his life. This collection reveals other preoccupations as well--with history in all its permutations, Borges's own ancestry, and his fascination with metaphysics, mazes, mirror images, and the blurry line between parallel realities:
The celibate white cat surveys himself
in the mirror's clear-eyed glass,
not suspecting that the whiteness facing him
and those gold eyes that he's not seen before
in ramblings through the house are his own likeness.
Who is to tell him the cat observing him
is only the mirror's way of dreaming?

This companion volume to Andrew Hurley's new translation of Collected Fictions boasts a stellar cast of translators, including W.S. Merwin, Mark Strand, and John Updike among others. Admirers of Borges will find Selected Poems a fitting memorial to the great man; and for those have never had the pleasure of reading him before, this book is a wonderful introduction. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Selected Non-Fictions
by Jorge Luis Borges

ISBN 0140290117 (0-14-029011-7)
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Jorge Luis Borges was our century's greatest miniaturist, perpetually cramming entire universes onto the head of a pin. Yet his splendid economy, along the wafer-thin proportions of such classic volumes as Ficciones and Labyrinths, has given readers the impression that Borges was miserly with his prose. In fact, he was something of a verbal spendthrift. His collected stories alone run to nearly 1,000 pages. And his nonfiction output was even more staggering: the young Borges cranked out hundreds of essays, book notes, cultural polemics, and movie reviews, and even after he lost his sight in 1955, he continued to dictate short pieces by the dozens. Eliot Weinberger has assembled just a fraction of this outpouring in Selected Non-Fictions, and the result is a 559-page Borgesian blowout, in which the Argentinean fabulist takes on being and nothingness, James Joyce and Lana Turner, and (surprisingly) racial hatred and the rise of Nazism. So much for our image of the mandarin bookworm! The very engagé author of this book seems more like a subequatorial Camus, with a dash of Siskel and Ebert on the side.
Selected Non-Fictions demonstrates just how quickly Borges began wrestling with such brainteasers as identity, time, and infinity. Indeed, the very first piece in the collection, "The Nothingness of Personality" (1922), already finds him fiddling with the self: "I, as I write this, am only a certainty that seeks out the words that are most apt to compel your attention. That proposition and a few muscular sensations, and the sight of the limpid branches that the trees place outside my window, constitute my current I." There are many such meditations here, including "A History of Eternity" (in which Borges maps out his own, disarmingly empty version of the eternal, "without a God or even a co-proprietor, and entirely devoid of archetypes"). But it's more fun--and more revelatory--to see the author venturing beyond his metaphysical stomping grounds. Borges on King Kong is a hoot, and a cornball masterpiece such as The Petrified Forest elicits this terrific nugget: "Death works in this film like hypnosis or alcohol: it brings the recesses of the soul into the light of day." His capsule biographies are a delight, his critiques of Nazi propaganda are memorably stringent, and nobody should miss him on the tango. True, the sheer variety and mind-boggling erudition of Selected Non-Fictions can be a little forbidding. But, taken as a whole, the collection surely meets the specifications that Borges laid out in a 1927 essay on literary pleasure: "If only some eternal book existed, primed for our enjoyment and whims, no less inventive in the populous morning as in the secluded night, oriented toward all hours of the world." Oh, but it does. --James Marcus [via]
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The Story of the Night
by Colm Toibin

ISBN 0743272714 (0-7432-7271-4)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster

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A Universal History of Infamy
by Jorge Luis Borges

ISBN 0525226702 (0-525-22670-2)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA

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A Universal History of Iniquity
by Andrew Hurley, Jorge Luis Borges

ISBN 0142437891 (0-14-243789-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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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 betrayal, and bloodthirsty revenge. Sparkling with the sheer exuberant pleasure of story-telling, this collection marked the emergence of an utterly distinctive literary voice.

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El Aleph
by Jorge Luis Borges

ISBN 0785949712 (0-7859-4971-2)
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El trabajo que da titulo a Historia de la eternidad se ocupa del tiempo y de su negacion y examina dos concepciones contrapuestas de eternidad: la alejandrina, de raiz platonica, y la cristiana, nacida con la doctrina trinitaria de Ireneo y formalizada por San Agustin. Otras dos penetrantes digresiones estudian la doctrina de Nietzsche sobre el eterno retorno y las concepciones basadas en el caracter recurrente del movimiento historico. El examen de las versiones clÃÂÃÂ¡sicas de Las 1001 noches ilustra los condicionamientos culturales e historicos de la labor de traduccion. [via]
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El Beso De La Mujer Arana / Kiss of the Spider Woman
by Manuel Puig

ISBN 0679755454 (0-679-75545-4)
Softcover, Random House Espanol

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El Beso De La Mujer Arana/ the Kiss of the Spiderwoman
by Manuel Puig

ISBN 8432217271 (84-322-1727-1)
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Diarios de Motociceta
by Ernesto Che Guevara

ISBN 192088811X (1-920888-11-X)
Softcover, Ocean Pr

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Facundo: Civilizacion y Barbarie en Las Pampas Argentinas
by Domingof Sarmiento, Juan Carlos Casas

ISBN 9871136005 (987-1136-00-5)
Softcover, Stockcero Inc

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Ficcionario
by Jorge Luis Borges

ISBN 9681620283 (968-16-2028-3)
Softcover, Fondo De Cultura Economica USA

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Reading Jorge Luis Borges is an experience akin to having the top of one's head removed for repairs. First comes the unfamiliar breeze tickling your cerebral cortex; then disorientation, even mild discomfort; and finally, the sense that the world has been irrevocably altered--and in this case, rendered infinitely more complex. First published in 1945, his Ficciones compressed several centuries' worth of philosophy and poetry into 17 tiny, unclassifiable pieces of prose. He offered up diabolical tigers, imaginary encyclopedias, ontological detective stories, and scholarly commentaries on nonexistent books, and in the process exploded all previous notions of genre. Would any of David Foster Wallace's famous footnotes be possible without Borges? Or, for that matter, the syntactical games of Perec, the metafictional pastiche of Calvino? For good or for ill, the blind Argentinian paved the way for a generation's worth of postmodern monkey business--and fiction will never be simply "fiction" again.
Its enormous influence on writers aside, Ficciones has also--perhaps more importantly--changed the way that we read. Borges's Pierre Menard, for instance, undertakes the most audacious project imaginable: to create not a contemporary version of Cervantes's most famous work but the Quixote itself, word for word. This second text is "verbally identical" to the original, yet, because of its new associations, "infinitely richer"; every time we read, he suggests, we are in effect creating an entirely new text, simply by viewing it through the distorting lens of history. "A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships," Borges once wrote in an essay about George Bernard Shaw. "All men who repeat one line of Shakespeare are William Shakespeare," he tells us in "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius." In this spirit, Borges is not above impersonating, even quoting, himself.
It is hard, exactly, to say what all of this means, at least in any of the usual ways. Borges wrote not with an ideological agenda, but with a kind of radical philosophical playfulness. Labyrinths, libraries, lotteries, doubles, dreams, mirrors, heresiarchs: these are the tokens with which he plays his ontological games. In the end, ideas themselves are less important to him than their aesthetic and imaginative possibilities. Like the idealist philosophers of Tlön, Borges does not "seek for the truth or even for verisimilitude, but rather for the astounding"; for him as for them, "metaphysics is a branch of fantastic literature." --Mary Park [via]
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Ficciones/ Fiction
by Luis Jorge Borges

ISBN 9500426005 (950-04-2600-5)
Softcover, Emece

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Reading Jorge Luis Borges is an experience akin to having the top of one's head removed for repairs. First comes the unfamiliar breeze tickling your cerebral cortex; then disorientation, even mild discomfort; and finally, the sense that the world has been irrevocably altered--and in this case, rendered infinitely more complex. First published in 1945, his Ficciones compressed several centuries' worth of philosophy and poetry into 17 tiny, unclassifiable pieces of prose. He offered up diabolical tigers, imaginary encyclopedias, ontological detective stories, and scholarly commentaries on nonexistent books, and in the process exploded all previous notions of genre. Would any of David Foster Wallace's famous footnotes be possible without Borges? Or, for that matter, the syntactical games of Perec, the metafictional pastiche of Calvino? For good or for ill, the blind Argentinian paved the way for a generation's worth of postmodern monkey business--and fiction will never be simply "fiction" again.
Its enormous influence on writers aside, Ficciones has also--perhaps more importantly--changed the way that we read. Borges's Pierre Menard, for instance, undertakes the most audacious project imaginable: to create not a contemporary version of Cervantes's most famous work but the Quixote itself, word for word. This second text is "verbally identical" to the original, yet, because of its new associations, "infinitely richer"; every time we read, he suggests, we are in effect creating an entirely new text, simply by viewing it through the distorting lens of history. "A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships," Borges once wrote in an essay about George Bernard Shaw. "All men who repeat one line of Shakespeare are William Shakespeare," he tells us in "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius." In this spirit, Borges is not above impersonating, even quoting, himself.
It is hard, exactly, to say what all of this means, at least in any of the usual ways. Borges wrote not with an ideological agenda, but with a kind of radical philosophical playfulness. Labyrinths, libraries, lotteries, doubles, dreams, mirrors, heresiarchs: these are the tokens with which he plays his ontological games. In the end, ideas themselves are less important to him than their aesthetic and imaginative possibilities. Like the idealist philosophers of Tlön, Borges does not "seek for the truth or even for verisimilitude, but rather for the astounding"; for him as for them, "metaphysics is a branch of fantastic literature." --Mary Park [via]
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by Jorge Luis Borges

ISBN 8420666564 (84-206-6656-4)
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El Hacedor
by Jorge Luis Borges

ISBN 842063333X (84-206-3333-X)
Softcover, Alianza Editorial Sa

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Historia Universal De LA Infamia
by Jorge Luis Borges

ISBN 8420633143 (84-206-3314-3)
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La Invención de Morel
by Adolfo Bioy Casares

ISBN 0893400963 (0-89340-096-3)
Hardcover, J. Curley

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La Invencion De Morel, El gran Serafin / The Invention of Morel, The Great Serafin
by Adolfo Bioy Casares

ISBN 8437603390 (84-376-0339-0)
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Jorge Luis Borges
by Jorge Luis Borges Acevedo

ISBN 8420613207 (84-206-1320-7)
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EN ESPANOL. In Spanish. Book Description: Barcelona, Emecé Editores/Alianza Editorial (El Libro de Bolsillo, 32w0), 1984 (12th printing). Binding is Paperback. Unites two Borges titles (with some modifications): "El Jardín de los Senderos que se Bifurcan" (1941) and "Artificios" (1944) 206p. [via]
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El Libro De Arena
by Borges

ISBN 8420616621 (84-206-1662-1)
Softcover, Grupo Anaya Comercial

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El Libro De Los Seres Imaginarios
by Jorge Luis Borges

ISBN 8420633895 (84-206-3389-5)
Softcover, Alianza Editorial Sa

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Ciento dieciseis seres imaginarios pueblan las paginas de este libro. Jorge Luis Borges los ha hecho venir de todos los rincones del mundo y la Mitología.¿ Pero, hasta donde son realmente imaginarios? Mística, metafísica, poesía, viejos relatos y realidades. [via]
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El Libro De Los seres Imaginarios/The book of the imaginery beings
by Jorge Luis Borges, Margarita Guerrero

ISBN 950042651X (950-04-2651-X)
Softcover, Emece

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Ciento dieciseis seres imaginarios pueblan las paginas de este libro. Jorge Luis Borges los ha hecho venir de todos los rincones del mundo y la Mitología.¿ Pero, hasta donde son realmente imaginarios? Mística, metafísica, poesía, viejos relatos y realidades. [via]
More editions of El Libro De Los seres Imaginarios/The book of the imaginery beings:
- El Libro De Los seres Imaginarios/The book of the imaginery beings: ISBN 950042651X (950-04-2651-X)
  Softcover, Emece