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Los Mejores Cuentos Policiales 2
Como fervientes aficionados al género policial y de intriga, que cultivaron tanto conjuntamente como por separado, y como grandes escritores, pocas personas podían resultar más idóneas que Jorge Luis Borges y Adolfo Bioy Casares para compilar una antología de Los mejores cuentos policiales. Repartida en dos volúmenes, los autores que incluye este segundo son Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Louis Stevenson, Arthur Conan Doyle, Jack London, Gilbert K. Chesterton, Eden Phillpotts, Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Anthony Berkeley, Millward Kennedy, Ellery Queen, Jorge Luis Borges, Manuel Peyrou, Silvina Ocampo y Adolfo Luis Pérez Zelaschi.
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Jorge Luis Borges
1,595 books14.4k followersJorge 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."
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."
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February 22, 2024
O yo tengo los estándares muy altos o estos no son ni por asomo los mejores cuentos policiales.
Quizás y para el año en que fue publicado eran los mejores pero actualmente no lo son y le falta bastante para serlo, tampoco es una lectura que no me haya gustado pero le faltó.
Lo recomiendo? La verdad me va a dar igual si lo lees o no pero NO de mi parte te podría decir que leas alguno de los cuentos que lo integran pero no el libro completo.
Quizás y para el año en que fue publicado eran los mejores pero actualmente no lo son y le falta bastante para serlo, tampoco es una lectura que no me haya gustado pero le faltó.
Lo recomiendo? La verdad me va a dar igual si lo lees o no pero NO de mi parte te podría decir que leas alguno de los cuentos que lo integran pero no el libro completo.
June 30, 2020
Me gustó.
La selección de cuentos que hicieron Borges y Bioy Casares es variada y no me refiero sólo a los autores. Los narradores, las tramas inesperadas, los protagonistas, el humor negro, el terror, en fin, cada cuento es una escuela y un lujo para quien disfruta de este género.
La selección de cuentos que hicieron Borges y Bioy Casares es variada y no me refiero sólo a los autores. Los narradores, las tramas inesperadas, los protagonistas, el humor negro, el terror, en fin, cada cuento es una escuela y un lujo para quien disfruta de este género.
July 12, 2021
Me ha gustado muchísimo más que el primero. Los autores son más conocidos, e incluye a varios argentinos.
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