博尔赫斯短篇小说集

by Jorge Luis Borges, 王央乐 (Translator)

豪尔赫·路易斯·博尔赫斯（1899~1986），阿根廷诗人、小说家，生于布宜诺斯艾利斯市。1941年出版的短篇小说集《交叉小径的花园》，使他不仅在阿根廷和拉丁美洲，而且在西方获得了声誉。其他代表作还有：短篇小说集《阿莱夫》、《死亡与罗盘》、《勃罗迪的报告》。此外，他还写有大量的散文、小品文和文学评论。博尔赫斯是阿根廷当代最重要的小说家，对拉丁美洲文学有深刻的影响。博尔赫斯仅以短篇小说跻身世界叙事大师之列，这样的作家在整个20世纪也屈指可数。通常认为，在几乎由商业出版主导的文学时代，像短篇小说这种比较纯粹的写作形式颇难进入大众视野。而博尔赫斯所代表的短篇高度，正是文学纯粹的高度，如他的被我国作家、读者广为推崇的《交叉小径的花园》、《阿莱夫》、《特隆-乌克巴尔，奥尔比斯-特蒂乌斯》和《圆形》、《废墟》等，都以其神秘、虚幻、迷宫和镜像等构成小说幻想腾空的翅膀，为中国文学的创作增加了想象飞翔的空间和力量。博尔赫斯不仅东西短小，写得也不多，一生只写了70个短篇，可是他却拥有最多的西班牙语读者，而且更将整个世界引入自己的故事迷宫。

目录：
玫瑰色街角的人
两个人做梦的故事
达不到目的的巫师
特隆，乌克巴尔，奥尔比斯.忒蒂乌斯
《吉诃德》的作者彼埃尔.梅纳德
圆形废墟
巴别图书馆
交叉小径的花园
刀疤
死亡和罗盘
秘密的奇迹
结局
南方
不死的人
死人
神学家
爱玛.聪茨
另一种死亡
阿凡罗斯的探求
神写下的文字
死在迷宫里的阿本哈根.艾尔.包哈里
门槛上的人
阿莱夫
骗局
私人的对话
皇宫的寓言
卑鄙的人
罗森多.胡亚雷斯的故事
遭遇
胡安.摩拉涅
决斗
瓜亚基尔
《马可福音》
另一个我
乌尔里克
议会
天赋之夜
镜子和面具
一个厌烦了的人的乌托邦
阿凡利诺.阿雷东多
沙之书
一个无可奈何的奇迹

398 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1983

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."