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Author
1899–1986
Jorge Luis Borges was born in Buenos Aires in 1899 and died in Geneva in 1986. He grew up among the books of his father's library, learned English almost as early as Spanish and spent part of his youth in Europe. Years later he became director of the National Library of Argentina.
His stories are short and fit into a handful of books, yet they have influenced writers all over the world. The Library of Babel, from 1941, imagines a universe made of an infinite library holding every possible book. Ficciones, from 1944, and The Aleph, from 1949, gather tales of labyrinths, mirrors, doubles, impossible memories and maps as large as the land they describe.
He received the Cervantes Prize in 1979. Reading Borges means entering a game of intelligence and learning, often with humour, where a philosophical idea becomes a story of a few pages that you never forget.
Jorge Luis Borges
A collection of stories in which endless libraries, labyrinths and impossible encyclopedias become games for the mind. Borges blends erudition, mock reviews and suspense to probe time, identity and the edges of reality. Each piece rewards slow reading, like a puzzle that keeps opening onto another.
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Jorge Luis Borges
A librarian describes a universe made of hexagonal galleries holding every possible book, nearly all of them gibberish. In a handful of pages, Borges turns this impossible architecture into a dizzying meditation on meaning, chance and our hunger for order. It reads slowly, like walking a labyrinth that keeps expanding in your mind.
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Jorge Luis Borges
Seventeen stories in which Borges opens small cracks in reality: a point holding every place in the universe, a coin no one can forget, labyrinths, immortals and rival theologians. His precise, restrained prose sets the impossible inside ordinary settings, leaving a quietly dizzying aftertaste. A book to read slowly and return to, finding something new each time.
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