The Book of Sand Including the Gold of the Tigers(Selected Later Poems) (Modern Classics) - Softcover

Borges, Jorge; Thomas, Norman

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140085459 ISBN 13: 9780140085457

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 1986

Synopsis

One of the most remarkable artists of our age.' MARIO VARGAS LLOSA THE BOOK OF SAND was the last of Borges' major collections to be published. The stories are, in his words, 'variations on favourite themes... combining a plain and at times almost colloquial style with a fantastic plot'. It includes such marvellous tales as 'The Congress', 'Undr' and 'The Mirror and the Mask'. Also included are the handful of stories written right at the end of Borges' life - 'August 25, 1983', 'Blue Tigers', 'The Rose of Paracelsus' and 'Shakespeare's Memory.

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Review

a[Borges] was a superb storyteller. One reads most of Borgesas tales with the hypnotic interest usually reserved for reading detective fiction.a aMario Vargas Llosa

"[Borges] was a superb storyteller. One reads most of Borges's tales with the hypnotic interest usually reserved for reading detective fiction." -Mario Vargas Llosa

[Borges] was a superb storyteller. One reads most of Borges's tales with the hypnotic interest usually reserved for reading detective fiction. Mario Vargas Llosa"

About the Author

JORGE LUIS BORGES (1899-1986) now has in print with Modern Classics the short story collections THE ALEPH, FICTIONS, BRODIE'S REPORT, A UNIVERSAL HISTORY OF INFAMY and THE BOOK OF IMAGINARY BEINGS. In addition Modern Classics publishes his SELECTEDPOEMS and THE TOTAL LIBRARY, a selection of his non-fiction which in 2000 won the National Book Critic's Circle award.

Edition details

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0140085459
• ISBN 13: 9780140085457
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192