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Jorge Luis Borges was a literary spellbinder whose tales of magic, mystery and murder are shot through with deep philosophical paradoxes. This collection brings together many of his stories, including the celebrated "Library of Babel".
| ISBN | 0141184841 | | Pages | 288 | | ISBN13 | 9780141184845
(What's this?) | | Weight (grammes) | 214 | | Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd | | Published in | London | | Imprint | Penguin Classics | | Series editor | Phillips, Adam, Phillips, Adam, Phillips, Adam | | Format | Paperback | | Series title | Penguin Modern Classics | | Publication date | 28 Sep 2000 | | Height (mm) | 198 | | Writer of introduction | J.E. Irby, Donald A. Yates | | Width (mm) | 129 | | Writer of preface | Andre Maurois | | Spine width (mm) | 17 | | DEWEY | 863 | | Academic level | General | | DEWEY edition | DC21 | |
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Borges anticipated postmodernism (deconstruction and so on) and picked up credit as founding father of Latin American magical realism.--Colin Waters  Be the first to write a customer review
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