Fiktioner og andre fiktioner

by Jorge Luis Borges

Samlet udgave af: Nederdrægtighedens verdenshistorie. Fiktioner. Aleffen. Bogen af sand

Indhold:, Nederdrægtighedens verdenshistorie ; Den grusomme frelser Lazarus Morell ; Den usandsynlige bedrager Tom Castro ; Enken Ching, sørøverinden ; Leverandøren af uretfærdigheder Monk Eastman ; Den flegmatiske morder Bill Harrigan ; Den uhøflige ceremonimester Kotsuké no Suké ; Den maskerede farver Hákim fra Merv. Manden fra det rosafarvede hjørne. Etcetera ; En teolog i døden ; Statuernes kammer ; Historien om de to, der drømte ; Den forbigåede troldmand ; Spejlet af blæk ; Muhammeds dobbeltgænger ; Oversigt over kilderne. Fiktioner. Haven med forgrenede gange ; Prolog ; Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius ; Pierre Menard, forfatter til Quixote ; Cirkelruinerne ; Lotteriet i Babylon ; Kritik af Herbert Quains værk ; Biblioteket i Babel ; Haven med forgrenede gange. Artefakter ; Prolog ; Funes med den gode hukommelse ; Sværdets mærke ; Om forræderen og helten ; Døden og kompasset ; Det hemmelige mirakel ; Tre Judasversioner ; Slutningen ; Fønikssekten ; Syden. Aleffen ; Den udødelige ; Den døde ; Teologerne ; Historien om krigeren og den fangne kvinde ; Tadeo Isidoro Cruz' biografi (1829-1874) ; Emma Zunz ; Asterions hus ; Den anden død ; Deutsches requiem ; Averroés' søgen ; Zahiren ; Gudens skrift ; Abenhacán El Bohari, død i sin labyrint ; De to konger og de to labyrinter ; Ventetiden ; Manden på tærsklen ; Aleffen ; Epilog. Bogen af sand ; Den anden ; Ulrica ; Kongressen ; There are more things ; De tredives sekt ; Gavernes nat ; Spejlet og masken ; Undr ; En træt mands utopi ; Bestikkelsen ; Avelino Arredondo ; Skiven ; Bogen af sand ; Epilog

430 pages, Hardcover

First published August 20, 2012

About the author

Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator regarded as a key figure in Spanish-language and international literature. His best-known works, Ficciones (transl. Fictions) and El Aleph (transl. The Aleph), published in the 1940s, are collections of short stories exploring motifs such as dreams, labyrinths, chance, infinity, archives, mirrors, fictional writers and mythology. Borges's works have contributed to philosophical literature and the fantasy genre, and have had a major influence on the magic realist movement in 20th century Latin American literature.
Born in Buenos Aires, Borges later moved with his family to Switzerland in 1914, where he studied at the Collège de Genève. The family travelled widely in Europe, including Spain. On his return to Argentina in 1921, Borges began publishing his poems and essays in surrealist literary journals. He also worked as a librarian and public lecturer. In 1955, he was appointed director of the National Public Library and professor of English Literature at the University of Buenos Aires. He became completely blind by the age of 55. Scholars have suggested that his progressive blindness helped him to create innovative literary symbols through imagination. By the 1960s, his work was translated and published widely in the United States and Europe. Borges himself was fluent in several languages.
In 1961, he came to international attention when he received the first Formentor Prize, which he shared with Samuel Beckett. In 1971, he won the Jerusalem Prize. His international reputation was consolidated in the 1960s, aided by the growing number of English translations, the Latin American Boom, and by the success of Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude. He dedicated his final work, The Conspirators, to the city of Geneva, Switzerland. Writer and essayist J.M. Coetzee said of him: "He, more than anyone, renovated the language of fiction and thus opened the way to a remarkable generation of Spanish-American novelists."

Reviews

[Carsten Rosenkrantz · Rating 4 out of 5]

langt om længe 🤓

[Ulrik Green · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some was ok, but probably just not my kind of book

[Johanna · Rating 3 out of 5]

Læste ikke alle historierne, men dem jeg gjorde var interessante, andre var lidt for uforståelige i deres "budskab", hvilket måske også var meningen

[Frederik · Rating 5 out of 5]

Ces fictions comptent entre les meilleures pièces de fictions que j’ai lues dans ma vie. On comprend pourquoi Roberto Bolano, Italo Calvino et bien d’autres écrivains lui doivent leur vie.

La qualité de ses œuvres est si grande, que son nom est devenu un « esque ». Quelque chose de Kafkaesque est une combinaison de culpabilité, intransigeance et que les relations de pouvoir sont opaques et labyrinthiques, pendant que le terme Borgesque signifie créer ces labyrinthes et les quitter par une petite part quelque part dans l’histoire. A lire, et relire et relire et relire et relire et…

[K's Bognoter · Rating 5 out of 5]

“Du, som læser mig, er du sikker på, du forstår mit sprog?” Når det er Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986), der spørger, som han gør i historien om Biblioteket i Babel (1944), kan læserens svar kun være: Nej, ikke umiddelbart. Og ved nærmere eftertanke: Nej, helt sikkert ikke.
Læs videre på K'a bognoter: http://bognoter.dk/2015/02/07/jorge-l...

[J_BlueFlower · Rating 3 out of 5]

Note to myself: Read Ficciones and The Aleph and Other Stories. The parts that are on the 1001 list.