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Results for 'jorge luis borges'
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being
'A dark and brilliant achievement' (Ian McEwan)Offers a wide range of philosophical speculations and it descants on a variety of styles. This book draws together the Czechoslovakia of the Prague Spring and the Russian invasion, the philosophy of Nietzsche, and the love affairs of a number of heartbreakingly familiar characters.
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The Name of the Rose
Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives to investigate. But his delicate mission is overshadowed by seven bizarre deaths. He collects evidence, deciphers secret symbols and digs into the eerie labyrinth of the abbey where extraordinary things are happening under the cover of night.
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Trafalgar
Both deeply thoughtful and immensely playful ... Here we have a kind of magical realism for science fiction ... What is at the heart of every incident, every interlude, is a luminous exploration of humanity: love, power, death, the known and the unknown ... Contemplative, provoking, bizarre - and brilliant. Quite, quite brilliant
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Labyrinths
A collection of short stories and essays showcasing one of Latin America's influential and imaginative writers. It was a literary spellbinder whose tales of magic, mystery and murder are shot through with deep philosophical paradoxes.
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Blinding: The Left Wing
Visionary, surreal, exhilarating... Almost as if David Lynch had dramatised the prophetic books of William Blake
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The Unconsoled
It is above all a book devoted to the human heart.' Rachel Cusk, The Times'The most original and remarkable book he has so far produced.' New York Times Book Review'One of the strangest books in memory.' TLS'I've never read a book like it.
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Fictions
Offers accounts of 'Funes the Memorious', the man who can forget nothing; 'Pierre Menard, Author of the "Quixote"', who recreates Miguel de Cervantes' epic word-for-word; a society run on the basis of an all-encompassing game of chance in 'The Lottery in Babylon'.
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The Garden of Forking Paths
Jorge Luis Borges was born in Buenos Aires in 1899 and educated in Europe. One of the most widely acclaimed writers of our times, he published many collections of poems, essays and short stories, before his death in Geneva in June 1986.
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Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
A memoir that offers a picture of the author's growing up in a bourgeois French family, rebelling as an adolescent against the conventional expectations of her class, and striking out on her own with an intellectual and existential ambition exceedingly rare in a young woman in the 1920s.
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De Aleph en andere verhalen
De Aleph en andere verhalen is een bundel boordevol filosofische puzzels en bovennatuurlijke verrassingen. De man met het absolute geheugen, het meisje dat haar verkrachting op briljante wijze wreekt, de schrijver die Don Quichot herschrijft, de moordenaar die een bedrieglijk eenvoudig labyrint optrekt waarin een politieman zijn dood tegemoetgaat, Judas die Jezus verraadt om hem te kunnen idealiseren, de Aleph die alles bevat wat ooit is geweest en wat ooit zal zijn, de wereld als bibliotheek of de bibliotheek als wereld – het zijn enkele van de inmiddels klassieke verhalen uit deze bundel.
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The Aleph
A collection of short stories with such themes as dreams, labyrinths, mirrors, infinite libraries, the manipulations of chance, gaucho knife-fighters, transparent tigers and the elusive nature of identity itself.
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Complete Stories
Features stories ranging from teenagers coming into awareness of their sexual and artistic powers to humdrum housewives whose lives are shattered by unexpected epiphanies to old people who don't know what to do with themselves.
€ 20,95