Jorge Luis Borges

Fantastische verhalen is een verhalenbundel van de Spaanstalige Argentijnse schrijver Jorge Luis Borges. Het geldt als een der belangrijkste werken in Spaans-Amerikaanse fantastische literatuur van de twintigste eeuw en volgens menigeen in de wereldliteratuur. ‘Le Monde’ koos het boek in 1996 in een overzicht van de …

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 …

The Aleph and Other Stories is a book of short stories by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges. The title work, "The Aleph", describes a point in space that contains all other spaces at once. The work also presents the idea of infinite time. Borges writes in the original afterword, dated May 3, 1949, that most of the …

Het boek van de denkbeeldige wezens is een werk van de Argentijnse schrijver Jorge Luis Borges, dat voor het eerst werd gepubliceerd in 1957. Het boek bevat een verzameling van 116 lemma's over fabelachtige wezens uit mythologieën en folklore, en is bedoeld als naslagwerk. De eerste vertaling ervan in het Nederlands …

The Aleph and Other Stories is a book of short stories by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges. The title work, "The Aleph", describes a point in space that contains all other spaces at once. The work also presents the idea of infinite time. Borges writes in the original afterword, dated May 3, 1949, that most of the …

The acclaimed translation of Borges's valedictory stories, in its first stand-alone edition Jorge Luis Borges has been called the greatest Spanish-language writer of the twentieth century. Now Borges's remarkable last major story collection, The Book of Sand, is paired with a handful of writings from the very end of …

This unique volume presents a Borges almost entirely unknown to American readers: his extraordinary non—fiction prose. Borges' unlimited curiosity and almost superhuman erudition become, in his essays, reviews, lectures, and political and cultural notes, a vortex for seemingly the entire universe: Dante and Ellery …

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 …

The art of writing is mysterious; the opinions we hold are ephemeral. In these eleven short stories, the quality of his inspiration is unmistakable. With their deceptively simple, almost laconic style, they achieve a magical impression that is unrivalled in modern writing.

De Profundis is de lange brief die Oscar Wilde na zijn veroordeling wegens sodomie en zijn echtscheiding van zijn vrouw Constance vanuit de gevangenis naar zijn vriend Lord Alfred Douglas schreef. De brief werd geschreven in de maanden januari tot maart 1897 in de gevangenis van Reading. Na zijn dood werd deze brief …