Textos recobrados III, 1956-1986/ Recovered Texts III, 1956-1986

Obras completas #19

by Jorge Luis Borges

Libro usado en buenas condiciones, por su antiguedad podria contener señales normales de uso

Genres: Latin American Literature

402 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2003

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

[Guillermo · Rating 5 out of 5]

Que genio este señor.
De todo un poco por supuesto, pero hay cosas extraordinarias.

[Felipe Fuentealba · Rating 5 out of 5]

Borges es dios. Me desilusionó un poco su aprobación a la censura, sobre todo porque aludía a Joyce, pero qué se le va a hacer, los motivos de dios son inescrutables. Inolvidable es su relato del calvario padecido por un torturado político, de quien juzga que lo más atroz que le ocurrió fue cuando, para noche buena, sus torturadores le sirvieron una cena lujosa, sabiendo que al otro día volverían a torturarlo. La crueldad siempre tiene algo de ingenuidad, dice Borges, que es dios.También, ahí mismo, dice, citando a Stevenson, que la crueldad es el más despreciable de los actos humanos, pues daña a la víctima y deshumaniza al victimario. Al hablar sobre su ceguera, Borges recuerda a R. Steiner, quien dijo: "siempre que algo se acaba, debemos pensar que otra cosa comienza". Me haré un tatuaje con esa frase.

[Andrés · Rating 5 out of 5]

Para los aficionados a Borges, excepcional. Muestra un lado más íntimo de él.

[Sergio Mira Jordán · Rating 4 out of 5]

Después de leer lo básico de Borges, este volumen completa el saber del argentino universal con auténticas joyas: discursos, entrevistas, artículos en prensa, poemas... Recomendable.

[Mario Soares · Rating 5 out of 5]

Bem, Borges é Borges e ponto final!

[Maria Azpiroz · Rating 4 out of 5]

Como “textos recobrados II” es dispar pero tiene verdaderas joyas que justifican todo el resto. Una de ellas Lugones- Macedonio 100 años” es genial.