Jorge Luis Borges

Recorded during Jorge Luis Borges’s final years, this second volume of his conversations with Osvaldo Ferrari provides a wide-ranging reflection on the life and work of Argentina’s master writer and favorite conversationalist. In Conversations: Volume 2, Borges and Ferrari engage in a dialogue that is both improvisational and frequently humorous as they touch on subjects as diverse as epic poetry, detective fiction, Buddhism, and the moon landing. With his signature wit, Borges offers insight into the philosophical basis of his stories and poems, his fascination with religious mysticism, and the idea of life as a dream. He also dwells on more personal themes, including the influence of his mother and father on his intellectual development, his friendships, and living with blindness. These recollections are alive to the passage of history, whether in the changing landscape of Buenos Aires or a succession of political conflicts, leading Borges to contemplate what he describes as his “South American destiny.” The recurrent theme of these conversations, however, is a life lived through books. Borges draws on the resources of a mental library that embraces world literature—ancient and modern. He recalls the works that were a constant presence in his memory and maps his changing attitudes to a highly personal canon. In the prologue to the volume, Borges celebrates dialogue and the transmission of culture across time and place. These conversations are a testimony to the supple ways that Borges explored his own relation to numerous traditions.

"He intentado, no s con qu fortuna, la redacci n de cuentos directos. No me atrevo a afirmar que son sencillos; no hay en la tierra una sola p gina, una sola palabra, que lo sea, ya que todas postulan el universo, cuyo m s notorio atributo es la complejidad". Este volumen re ne todos los cuentos de Borges, uno de los legados m s influyentes y deslumbrantes de la literatura occidental. El universo borgiano, con sus espejos, laberintos, tigres, bibliotecas, gauchos o m scaras, es ya uno de los paisajes fundamentales del siglo XX. En este libro, el verdadero libro de libros, se encuentran obras maestras como "El jard n de los senderos que se bifurcan", "Pierre Menard, autor del Quijote", "Funes el memorioso", "El Sur", "El Aleph" o "Ulrica". Leer estos cuentos supone releer la historia de la humanidad y emprender una de las aventuras m s enriquecedoras, bellas y emocionantes de todos los tiempos. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION This volume compiles all of Borges' stories, who left one of the most influential and astounding legacies in Western literature. The Borgian universe, with its mirrors, labyrinths, tigers, libraries, gauchos, and masks, is one of the fundamental landscapes of the 20th century. In this book, the true book of books, you will find masterpieces such as "The Garden of Forking Paths", "Pierre Menard, Author of Don Quixote", "Funes the Memorious", "The South", "The Aleph" or "Ulrikke". Reading these stories means rereading the history of humanity and embarking on one of the most enriching, beautiful, and exciting adventures of all times.

Una nueva edici n conmemorativa de la RAE y la ASALE que incluye lo mejor de la obra de Jorge Luis Borges. La obra fundamental del maestro de la ficci n contempor nea. El presente volumen incluye los textos ntegros de Ficciones y El Aleph, dos de sus obras narrativas m s representativas, as como una selecci n de sus poemas y textos ensay sticos. Una obra bella, pura y original escrita con un lenguaje aparentemente desnudo pero dotado de la precisi n de un bistur , y de un gran poder evocador y carga simb lica. Jorge Luis Borges naci el 24 de agosto de 1899 en Buenos Aires. Su obra ha sido traducida a m s de veinticinco idiomas, y actualmente Jorge Luis Borges es considerado uno de los m s importantes autores en lengua hispana de todos los tiempos. Muri en Ginebra el 14 de junio de 1986. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION A new, commemorative edition by the Real Academia Espa ola and the ASALE that includes the best of Jorge Luis Borges's work. The fundamental works of the master of contemporary fiction. This volume includes the unabridged texts of Ficciones and El Aleph, two of his most representative narrative works, as well as a selection of his poems and essays. A beautiful, pure, and original work, written in a bare style but with the precision of a scalpel, and with great evocative power and symbolic weight. Jorge Luis Borges was born on August 24, 1899, in Buenos Aires. His works have been translated into more than 25 languages, and Borges is currently considered one of the most important Spanish-language authors of all time. He died in Geneva in 1986.

A dazzling catalogue of beasts drawn from the dreamworlds of myth, folklore, and imagination From dragons and unicorns to beings born only in Borges's labyrinthine mind, this extraordinary compendium blurs the line between scholarship and fantasy. At once encyclopaedia and storybook, it reveals Borges's genius for turning knowledge into wonder. BRIEF ENCOUNTERS: classic novellas and captivating stories, to be read in a single sitting or savoured over days

Since it was first published by New Directions in 1962, Labyrinths has transformed and enriched our collective imaginations, introduced new possibilities for literature, and astonished generation after generation of readers and writers. This groundbreaking collection of stories, essays, and parables still serves as a perfect introduction to Borges's imaginative universe: writing that is multi-layered, paradoxical, recursive, elusive, and allusive; characteristics which, in other writers, are often labeled Borgesian.For many readers in the past decades, including Pope Francis and Daniel Radcliffe, Umberto Eco and Ursula K. Le Guin, the stories contained in Labyrinths--"The Garden of Forking Paths," "The Lottery in Babylon," and "The Library of Babel"--introduced not only a monumental writer but a new way of thinking about literature and the modern world.

Don Isidro Parodi avtjänar ett 21-årigt fängelsestraff för ett brott han inte begått. Till hans cell 273 kommer personer som vill ha Parodis hjälp att lösa gåtor och problem som kräver ett extra snillrikt sinne. Länstolsdetektiven Parodi spelar i samma liga som andra mindre rörliga problemlösare -- Nero Wolfe, prins Zaleski, Sherlock Holmes bror Mycroft med flera. Sex problem för don Isidro Parodi publicerades 1942 i Argentina. Författarna var Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) och Adolfo Bioy Casares (1914-1999). De hade träffats tio år tidigare och grundat en vänskap som skulle hålla livet ut. Bägge författarna skrev genreöverskridande och bägge lämnade betydelsefulla bidrag till den magiska realismen. Casares roman Morels uppfinning beskrevs som "perfekt" av Octavio Paz. Och Borges-beundraren Mario Vargas Llosa skrev boken Medio siglo con Borges (2020), som är en samling intervjuer med och essäer om Borges samt recensioner av hans verk. De prisades således av Nobelpristagare -- men varken Borges eller Casares erhöll själva Nobelpriset. Borges nominerades åtskilliga gånger, bland andra av Svenska PEN och Det Danske Akademi. I Queen's Quorum, Ellery Queens deckarkanon över novellsamlingar, listas boken om Isidro Parodi som nr 96 med bokstäverna H ("Historical Significance"), Q ("Quality, in terms of literary style and originality of plot") och R ("Rarity of first edition") -- den högsta möjliga kombinationen. Sex problem för don Isidro Parodi presenteras här för första gången på svenska, med stöd från Svenska Akademien. --- INNEHÅLL Introduktion av Mats Andersson Adelma Badoglio: H. Bustos Domecq Gervasio Montenegro: Förord Världens tolv tecken Goliadkins nätter Tjurguden Sangiácomos ränker Tadeo Limardos offer Det utdragna sökandet efter Tai An

“A wondrously limpid testament to the pleasures of reading.” —Steven Poole, The GuardianSix incandescent lectures on literature from the patron saint of mirrors, metafiction, and infinite libraries.For more than thirty years, Jorge Luis Borges’s Norton Lectures went unpublished. Recorded at Harvard in 1967 and 1968, the tapes gathered dust in a library vault until their discovery after his death. It was a twist that the author of Labyrinths would have relished. This volume assembles the recovered materials, offering a priceless window into the Argentinian master’s lifelong love affair with the English language.This Craft of Verse captures the cadences, candor, wit, and erudition of one of the twentieth century’s enduring literary voices. Though his avowed topic is poetry, Borges explores subjects ranging from prose forms—especially the novel—to literary history, translation theory, and philosophical aspects of communication writ large. Borges here draws on a wide range of literary examples—modern and medieval English, Spanish, French, Italian, German, Greek, Latin, Arabic, Hebrew, and Chinese. He brings characteristic eloquence and inexhaustible enthusiasm to readings of Plato, the Old Norse kenningar, Byron, Poe, Chesterton, Joyce, and Frost, as well as translations of Homer, the Bible, and the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám.Whether discussing metaphor, the origins of verse, or his own “poetic creed,” Borges gives a performance as entertaining as it is intellectually engaging. A lesson in the love of literature and the making of a unique artistic sensibility, This Craft of Verse is a sustained encounter with one of the writers whose place in the twentieth century will be forever remembered.

«Afirmar que el universo es limitado es una herej a; afirmar que es ilimitado, tambi n; afirmar que no es ni lo uno ni lo otro es asimismo her tico. El budismo ocupa un lugar central en el conjunto de la obra de Borges. La percepci n del cosmos como un laberinto o una paradoja, la negaci n del Yo, el cuestionamiento a la concepci n occidental del tiempo y la singular noci n de que el mundo es una ficci n y la realidad un sue o, entre otras ideas, cruzan los ensayos, cuentos y poemas del autor desde sus textos m s tempranos y son la particular reformulaci n con fines literarios de algunos de los nodos centrales de esta doctrina. Escrito a partir de una serie de conferencias y publicado por primera vez en 1976, en colaboraci n con Alicia Jurado, Qu es el budismo es un fascinante recorrido a trav s de uno de los cultos m s conocidos y m s tergiversados del mundo desde los or genes hist ricos del Buddha hasta las teor as de la reencarnaci n y una obra indispensable para completar el sentido del universo borgeano. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION "Claiming the universe is finite is heresy, as it is claiming the universe is infinite; claiming it is not one or the other is also heretic." Buddhism is front and center in Borges' collective works. The perception of cosmos as a labyrinth or a paradox, the denying of the self, questioning the Western conception of time, and the singular notion that the world is fiction and reality a dream, among other ideas, cross the author's essays, short stories, and poems since his earliest works, and they are a particular reformulation, with literary purposes, of some of the central nodes of this doctrine. Written from a series of lectures and first published in 1976, in collaboration with Alicia Jurado, What Is Buddhism? is a fascinating journey through one of the best-known and most-misinterpreted religions in the world, from Buddha's historical origins, to the theories of reincarnation. This is an essential book to complement the meaning of the Borgesian universe.

Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) käsittelee esseekokoelmassaan Viisi aihetta elämän perusasioita, kuten aikaa ja kuolemattomuutta. Näillä sanoilla nimettyjen esseiden lisäksi argentiinalainen mestari paneutuu tässä kirjassa salapoliisiromaanin ideaan ja 1700-luvulla vaikuttaneeseen ruotsalaiseen mystikkoon Emanuel Swedenborgiin. Viides aihe teoksessa on kirja, jota Borges pitää ihmisen luomista ”instrumenteista” erikoisimpana. Se on Borgesille ennen kaikkea ihmisen mielikuvituksen jatke ja vertautuu mikroskooppiin näkökyvyn jatkeena, puhelimeen äänen jatkeena sekä auraa ja miekkaa käden jatkeina.Borgesin valtava lukeneisuus sekä runsas kielten, kirjallisuuden, filosofian ja mytologioiden tuntemus heijastuvat hänen esseissään hienovireisen huumorin sävyttämänä, lukemaan houkuttelevana tarinointina. Argentiinalainen mestari osoittaa tässäkin teoksessaan, että suuri viisaus voi olla samalla kepeää.Pentti Saaritsa jatkaa tällä teoksella hienoa, jo puoli vuosisataa jatkunutta suomentajanuraansa. Hänen edellinen Borges-suomennoksensa on arvostelu- ja myyntimenestykseksi noussut esseekokoelma Seitsemän iltaa.

Argentiinalaisen kirjallisuuden uudistaja Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) tarttuu esseekokoelmassaan Seitsemän iltaa kirjallisuuden ikiaikaisiin klassikoihin, kuten Tuhannen ja yhden yön tarinoihin ja Danten Jumalaiseen näytelmään. Yhtä omaleimaisella otteella hän lähestyy muita esseidensä aiheita: painajaisunia, buddhismia, kabbalaa ja sokeutta, josta 35-vuotiaana sokeutuneella kirjailijalla oli syvän henkilökohtainen kokemus.

Argentiinalaisen kertojamestarin Jorge Luis Borgesin kertomukset julkaistaan nyt ensimmäistä kertaa suomeksi yhdessä niteessä. Vuosisatansa merkittävimmäksi espanjankieliseksi kirjailijaksi mainittu Borges tunnetaan arvoituksellisista, hienosyisistä ja mielikuvituksellisista tarinoista, jotka usein kääntävät fiktion idean päälaelleen leikitellessään lajityypeillä ja kielellä.Suomentaja Anu Partasen suurtyö sisältää Borgesin julkaistut kertomukset; myös aikaisemmin suomeksi julkaistut saadaan nyt uusina suomennoksina. Kertomukset täyttää viimeinkin sen ammottavan aukon, joka tähän asti on piinannut suomalaista käännöskirjallisuutta. Borges on vuosikymmenestä toiseen ollut paitsi lukijoiden kestosuo- sikki, myös monien kirjailijoiden ehtymätön inspiraation lähde.

Recorded during Borges’ final years, this third volume of his conversations with Osvaldo Ferrari offers a rare glimpse into the life and work of Argentina’s master writer and favorite conversationalist. In Conversations: Volume 3, Borges and Ferrari discuss subjects as diverse as film criticism, fantastic literature, science fiction, the Argentinian literary tradition, and the works of writers such as Bunyan, Wilde, Joyce, and Yeats, among others. With his signature wit, Borges converses on the philosophical basis of his writing, his travels, and his fascination with religious mysticism. He also ruminates on more personal themes, including the influence of his family on his intellectual development, his friendships, and living with blindness. The recurrent theme of these conversations, however, is a life lived through books. Borges draws on the resources of a mental library that embraces world literature, both ancient and modern. He recalls the works that were a constant presence in his memory and maps his changing attitudes to a highly personal canon. These conversations are a testimony to the supple ways that Borges explored his own relation to numerous traditions—the conjunction of his life, his lucidity, and his imagination.

“The drunkard who comes out with an absurd order, the dreamer who suddenly wakes and with his bare hands strangles the woman sleeping beside him – are they perhaps not carrying out one of the Company’s secret decisions? These silent workings, so like those of God, give rise to all manner of speculation.”The affairs of Babylon are dictated by a lottery. Discreetly administered by a mysterious and seemingly omnipotent Company, the lottery can elevate citizens to positions of wealth and power or condemn them to the most shameful punishments. Taking this fantastical conceit as its starting point, Jorge Luis Borges’s short story is a characteristically brilliant achievement – a haunting mediation on the nature of chance, paranoia and divinity.Eris Gems make available in the form of beautifully produced saddle-stitched booklets a series of outstanding short works of fiction and non-fiction.

Jorge Luis Borgesin (1899-1986) Omaelämäkerta on kirjailijaelämäkertojen suomennosten merkkiteoksia. Borgesin tyyli on mutkaton, älyllinen ja täynnä hänelle ominaista hienovaraista huumoria. Lukija voi seurata kirjailijan vaellusta Sveitsistä Espanjan kautta Buenos Airesiin, jonne Borges asettui asumaan loppuiäkseen. Varhain sokeutuneen kirjailijan mahtava, detaljeista rikas muisti ja monikielinen lukeneisuus avaavat lukijalle kiehtovan elämäntarinan, jonka vivahteet Pentti Saaritsan tuore suomennos välittää hienosti.

La traducci n y las notas de Mart n Hadis junto a las notables fotograf as de Willis Barnstone completan en estas p ginas el sensible retrato de ese misterio esencial de la literatura que conocemos como Borges. En la d cada final de su vida, Jorge Luis Borges emprendi una gira por los Estados Unidos con el fin de participar en una serie de di logos organizados por varias de las universidades m s prestigiosas de esa naci n (Chicago, Indiana, Columbia, Boston, Harvard y el MIT). El recorrido traza una cartograf a inquietante: Borges conversa sobre el sentido del universo con un astrof sico, sobre misticismo con un experto en c bala y sobre el difuso l mite entre realidad y ficci n con escritores y poetas. Asiste a un encuentro en el pen Club de Nueva York y concede incluso una entrevista a una personalidad televisiva: Dick Cavett. A lo largo de estos encuentros, el escritor argentino evoca sue os y pesadillas, sagas n rdicas, frases del ingl s antiguo, la presencia del «otro y el doble, y varios de sus autores favoritos, entre otros temas. El placer intelectual de la conversaci n lleva asimismo a Borges (por lo general, renuente a las confidencias) a revelar el significado de s mbolos y tramas de varias de sus obras. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Mart n Hadis' translation and notes, and Willis Barnstone's remarkable photographs, build a sensitive portrait of that essential literary mystery known as Borges. In the final years of his life, Borges toured the United States participating in a series of dialogues organized by several of the most prestigious universities in the country: Chicago, Indiana, Columbia, Boston, Harvard, and MIT. The tour draws a disturbing cartography. Borges talks about the meaning of the universe with an astrophysicist, about mysticism with a kabbalah scholar, and about the blurry line separating reality from fiction with writers and poets. He attends a meeting at the Pen Club in New York City, and even gives Dick Cavett a TV interview. Throughout these encounters, the Argentine writer evokes dreams and nightmares, refers to Nordic sagas and Old English quotes, reflects on alterity, and comments on many of his favorite authors. The intellectual pleasure of these conversations also leads to the usually reserved Borges to reveal the meaning of symbols and plots in several of his works.