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"Dreams and Realities offers a sampling of Gorriti's stories, showing the range of her commitment to political fiction drawn in the romantic style. Originally published in four volumes under the titles Suenos y realidades and Panoramas de la vida, her works deal with the tyranny of the Rosas regime, the mediating role of women, and the clash of European and indigenous cultures. Notwithstanding her personal political leanings, Gorriti's stories and...
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The works of an Argentinian writer who took the detective story and turned it into metaphysics. They range from the 1935 'A Universal History of Iniquity', a series of biographies of reprehensible evildoers, to the surrealistic 'August 25, 1983' in which Borges meets himself as an old man.
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A celebrated avant-garde poet and essayist in the 1930s, Jorge Luis Borges turned to short fiction as an experiment. The result was historic: within a decade, Borges emerged as one of the genre's greatest innovators. With "Jorge Luis Borges: A Study of the Short Fiction", Naomi Lindstrom provides a thought-provoking consideration of Borges's short fiction canon. Lindstrom traces the development of Borges's involvement with the short narrative, offering...
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The seventeen pieces in Ficciones demonstrate the gargantuan powers of imagination, intelligence, and style of one of the greatest writers of this or any other century. Borges sends us on a journey into a compelling, bizarre, and profoundly resonant realm; we enter the fearful sphere of Pascal's abyss, the surreal and literal labyrinth of books, and the iconography of eternal return. More playful and approachable than the fictions themselves are Borges's...
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