thematic analysis of each short story-- Extracts from major critical essays that discuss important aspects of each work-- A complete bibliography of the writer's works-- A list of critical works about the short stories covered in the book-- An index of themes and ideas in the author's ...
Fictions and Artifices— Short stories; the core Borges works. Nonfiction— Collections of essays and criticism. Collaborations with Bioy Casares— Fiction and anthologies written or edited with Adolfo Bioy Casares. Collaborations with Others— Fiction and anthologies written or edited with others. ...
PDF Cite Share Jorge Luis Borges (BAWR-hays) is best known for his short stories, especially those written during the period when he made each the exploration of a metaphysical paradox, often with the pretense that he was summarizing some larger work. These metaphysical themes pervade most of...
It would be nearly a decade until Borges’ next collection of short stories, and those would have an entirely different tone; from this point on, Borges generally considered himself a poet.Although Borges referred to El hacedor as a “crazy-quilt patchwork,” he considered the book to be ...
(a licensed pharmacist, he had worked in the prison’s infirmary), he turned to what had been a pastime, writing. Over the next several years he wrote 381 short stories under the pen name by which we know him, “O. Henry,” including a story a week for over a year for theNew ...
Historical Reference and the Representation of Reality in Borges, Daniel Balderston claims that the interpretative practice of Jorge Luis Borges's short stories has tended to focus on the `unreal', that is, on its autoreferential, fictional and fantastic elements, and that, on the other hand, ...
This is the feeling I get in reading Kuhnelin’s short vignettes and stories, a sense of that fusion of Body Horror, SF, and the whole gamut of fantastic literature ala Stanislaw Lem and P.K. Dick among others. To say his vision is warped is not a demeaning term but rather the state...
this exploration of the story through the eyes of a humanistic mathematician makes a unique and important contribution to the body of Borgesian criticism. Bloch not only illuminates one of the great short stories of modern literature but also exposes the reader-including those more inclined to the...
Glory be to the Living, who dieth not.[This is the story the Reverend Allaby tells from the pulpit in “Ibn Hakkan al-Bokhari, Dead in His Labyrinth.” See p. 115.] 1To read Borges’ short story “The Two Kings and Their Two Labyrinths” is toenter a labyrinth, to become ...
Labyrinths SelectedStories&Other Writings by JorgeLuisBorges 1 Contents Preface Introduction Fictions Tlön,Uqbar,OrbisTertius TheGardenofForkingPaths TheLotteryinBabylon PierreMenard,AuthoroftheQuixote TheCircularRuins TheLibraryofBabel FunestheMemorious ...