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  • LA Familia Mumin En Invierno/Moominland Midwinter
    by Tove Jannson
    ISBN 8427933207 (84-279-3320-7)
    Softcover, Noguer Y Caralt Editores

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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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  • Ficciones/ Fictions
    by Jorge Luis Borges
    ISBN 8420666564 (84-206-6656-4)
    Hardcover, Alianza Editorial Sa

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  • Jorge Luis Borges
    by Jorge Luis Borges Acevedo
    ISBN 8420613207 (84-206-1320-7)
    Softcover, Distribooks Inc

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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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  • Parque Jurasico / Jurassic Park
    by Michael Crichton, DANIEL YAGOLKOLWSKI
    ISBN 840149236X (84-01-49236-X)
    Softcover, Distribooks Inc

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    En esta espectacular novela, los dinosaurios vuelven a conquistar la Tierra. En una isla remota, un grupo de hombres y mujeres emprende una carrera contra el tiempo para evitar un desastre mundial provocado por la desmedida ambicion de comercializar la ingenieria genetica. Pero todos los esfuerzos resultaran vanos cuando el inescrupuloso proyecto quede fuera de control y el mundo a merced de unas bestias monstruosas... Parque Jurasico, la novela mas celebre de Michael Crichton y una de las mas leidas en los ultimos anos, fue adaptada al cine por Steven Spielberg en una pelicula que se convirtio en el gran acontecimiento cinematografico de 1993 y en el origen del fenomeno de masas llamado ""dinomania"". [via]

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  • Sally Y El Tigre En El Pozo
    by Phillip Pullman, Isabel De Miquel
    ISBN 8495618494 (84-95618-49-4)
    Hardcover, Ediciones Urano

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    En cualquier momento, cuando todo está bien en tu vida, puedes caer al pozo... donde aguarda el tigre

    Londres, 1881. La valiente Sally vive dedicada a su hija, Harriet, en una bonita casa que comparte con sus amigos, Jim Taylor y Webster Garland, y su negocio nunca había ido tan bien. Sin embargo, alguien acecha su casa, alguien sigue sus pasos, alguien está a punto de tirar de la cuerda que abrirá la trampilla bajo sus pies. Lo llaman el Tzaddik, y se enriquece a costa de la miseria ajena, que en la Europa de finales del siglo XIX, se traduce en migraciones, mano de obra barata y corrupción.
    Es tan poderoso y malvado que se ha convertido en leyenda, y su nombre provoca escalofríos, desde las heladas aldeas de la estepa rusa hasta las mismas barriadas de Londres.

    Sally Lockhart necesitará reunir toda su astucia y sangre fría para no desmoronarse ni perder el pulso, porque la vida de su hija corre serio peligro. Esta vez estará sola, pero contará con el consejo y el apoyo de Daniel Goldberg, su nuevo amigo, que comparte con ella el gusto por la aventura, la audacia y una inagotable sed de justicia. [via]

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  • Sally Y LA Sombra Del Norte / The Shadow in the North
    by Philip Pullman
    ISBN 8495618435 (84-95618-43-5)
    Hardcover, Ediciones Urano

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    En el Londres victoriano, las estrafalarias oficinas de Lockhart y Garland -socios, amigos y mucho más- bullen de frenética actividad. Mientras Jim Taylor, el aventurero, intenta ayudar a un asustado mago a desaparecer por un tiempo, Fred Garland, el fotógrafo, estudia la forma de captar en imágenes una fraudulenta sesión de espiritismo.

    Pero la misión más difícil es sin duda la de Sally Lockhart, intrépida asesora financiera. Ella sola se enfrentará a un hombre que constituye una terrible amenaza para la humanidad.

    Sally Lockhart, la sagaz protagonista de esta novela de aventuras que nos traslada a la Inglaterra del siglo XIX adivinará las intenciones de esta maléfica sombra del norte y conseguirá detener su avance. ¿Pero a qué precio?

    Una emocionante novela de amor, amistad y aventura. [via]

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  • King, Stephen: Todo Es Eventual / Everything's Eventual
    Todo Es Eventual / Everything's Eventual
    by Stephen King
    ISBN 030727375X (0-307-27375-X)
    Softcover, Debolsillo

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