The Book of Sand and Shakespeare's Memory (Penguin Modern Classics) - Softcover

Jorge Luis Borges

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141183829 ISBN 13: 9780141183824

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2001

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:

"[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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0141183829
• ISBN 13: 9780141183824
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176