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Title: Ficciones (English Translation) by Jorge Luis Borges, Anthony Kerrigan, Anthony Bonner ISBN: 0-8021-3030-5 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: March, 1989 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.92 (60 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Habra Foucault Leido Borges?
Comment: Es un consuelo y, sin embargo, un profundo alivio manantial de pensar que el hombre es solamente una nueva invencion, una figura sin haber cumplido todovia dos siglos en existencia, una nueva arruga en nuestro conocimiento, y volvera ha desaparecer una vez que nuestro conocimiento haya sido discubierto." Foucault, en The Order of Things.
Ademas del obvio, esta claro que Foucault haya leido Borges poco mas o menos completamentecomensando The Order of Things con: "Este libro primeramente provino de pasajes de Borges, sale de la risa que desmenuza mientras leiya el pasaje, todos los mojones familiares de mi pensamiento - nuestro pensar, el pensamiento que lleva la stampa de nuestra edad y nuestra geografia - destrosando toda orden superficial y todo los planos con que acostumbramos a domar la profusion salvaje de cosas que existen y continuan mucho despues para estorbar y amenazar el colapso de la eterna diferencia entre el Mismo y el Otro." Foucault se referia al "The Analytical Language of John Wilkins" por Jorge Luis Borges. Sin embargo hubiese estado mejor leyendo fuera de las paginas de Ficciones. Borges nos advierte no leer tanto sobre las cosas pero simplemente gozar o sentir gusto y alegria. En su intempestivo clasico de diez y siete piezas, se manifesta Borges a su mejor. En esta seleccion y precisamente en "The Library of Babel", Borges juega con el mundo en realidad y en vano y nos enseÔa la naturaleza precaria de esa
distincion. El dirige su obra a una epistemologia que queda fuera del centro enseÔandonos la naturalesa tentativa del mundo en realidad. No tiene clasificacion del universo que es arbitrario o conjectural. Aqui es donde empiesa el enlaze con Foucault ..... Semejante a Kafka en ciertos pasajes, el llama attencion a estas zonas imaginarias y vemos que toda sabiduria, seÔas y simbolos tanto como conocimiento interior, es solo ficcion o fabricacion - fundado en construciones de palabra a palabra sea o no sea ficcion. El labirinto que es el "Library of Babel" con su forma repettitiva y topografica, y la entretexualidad que es el hex«gono carnesÍ.
"I have squandered and consumed my years in adventures of this type. To me, it does not seem unlikely that on some shelf of the universe lies a total book." Borges, "The Library of Babel".
Yo pienso que lo hemos allado aqui, en Ficciones. Todas cosas desde "Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis, Tertius" a "The South", nos obsequian a una mezcla de surrealismo mundial y semillas de la desmantelacion Francesa. Si Foucault ha leido Borges, el ha reconocido la contribucion de Borges en su estudio de poder y la edficada naturaleza de "The Order of Things". Ficciones no es facil leer pero es muy recompensable. A mi me impresiono la extension de los temas y propuse hacer muchas investigaciones para alcansar lo que you sentia, a mi parecer, un trabajo poco mas o menos impenetrable. Sin embargo, a pesar de la naturalesa de un trabajocompareciente a un laberinto, como Kafka, con un poco de exfuerso llegamos a ver el humor y realizamos que ambos no quedan infinitamente incomprendible.
Miguel Llora y Barrios
Rating: 5
Summary: An incomparable collection of literary masterpieces
Comment: This collection of Jorge Luis Borges' "fictions" brings together incomparable masterpieces of contemporary world literature. No other writer I know of has been able to muster up the sheer creative energy and intellectual power necessary to mold into shape such magnificent ideas and stories. Borges mixes the realms of mystery, mythology, adventure, metaphysics, human misery and compassion, and literary criticism into an awesome whole. His manner of prose-writing is almost equally as impressive: journalistic, balanced, eloquent, evocative. Borges' "Fictions" has had a profound influence on my way of looking at literature and the world. He has evoked an abiding interest in the mythological and historical roots of contemporary writing and, by extension, a deeper understanding and appreciation of the mysteries and meaning in the visual and musical arts, as well. I highly recommend this book (or Andrew Hurley's more complete collection) for an outstanding read.
Rating: 5
Summary: The best euro-southamerican literature
Comment: People say that God sends to each nation a blind poet, which will let a trace that nobody will forget.
For Greeks, it was Homer; for Englishmen, it was Milton; for Argentinians, it was Jorge Luis Borges.
Argentinians are the Europeans of the end of the world. They are not latinos, but Europeans born overseas.
Only after understanding this duality can one understand why euro-southamerican literature is so particular, and definitely, not latin-american literature at all.
Borges, a descendant of English, Spanish and Portuguese immigrants, is the best example of this literature. His humour, his impressive erudition, his eurocentric vision, his deep philosophical thoughts are very argentinian and they need readers as cultivated as the writer. A difficult task for us, Spanish university students.
Definitely, "Ficciones" is a must-have for any Spanish-speaking person claiming to be a cultivated one.
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Title: Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings by Jorge Luis Borges, James E. Irby, Donald A. Yates ISBN: 0811200124 Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation Pub. Date: February, 1988 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Pedro Paramo by Juan Rulfo, Margaret Sayers Peden, Margaret S. Paden ISBN: 0802133908 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: May, 1994 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title: Everything & Nothing by Jorge Luis Borges, Donald A. Yates, James E. Ieby, John M. Fein, Eliot Winberger, James E. Irby, Jorge Borges, Eliot Weinberger ISBN: 0811214001 Publisher: New Directions Publishing Pub. Date: 01 April, 1999 List Price(USD): $8.50 |
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Title: Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges, Andrew Hurley ISBN: 0140286802 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: September, 1999 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez ISBN: 0060929790 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 November, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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