The first fruit of the collaboration of Borges and his long-time friend Bioy-Casares, Six Problems for Don Isidro Parodi appeared originally under the pseudonym of H. Bustos Domecq. "Bugsy's" prose style is not quite the style of either of the collaborato
In 1971, Jorge Luis Borges was invited to preside over a series of seminars on his writing at Columbia University. This book is a record of those seminars, which took the form of informal discussions between Borges, Norman Thomas di Giovanni--his editor a
This huge anthology offers a kaleidoscope of brilliant writing from the Magi of the imagination. Alberto Manguel has selected 72 fantastic tales from life on the edge of the twilight zone, with stories from Marguerite Yourcenar, Herman Hesse, Italo Calvin
Incluye:"Hombre de la esquina rosada", de Jorge Luis Borges"Los fugitivos", de Alejo Carpentier"La autopista del sur", de Julio Cortázar"Nos han dado la tierra", de Juan Rulfo"Recuerdo de las sierras", de Adolfo Bioy Casares"En este pueblo no hay ladrone
Negli ultimi cento anni matematica e letteratura hanno incrociato il loro cammino innumerevoli volte, troppe perché si tratti soltanto di incontri casuali. Se è vero che entrambe sono attività di "finzione" e consistono principalmente nell'invenzione d
In his lecture "Play and the Theory of Duende," he says, ". . .there are no maps nor disciplines to help us find the duende. We only know that he burns the blood like a poultice of broken glass, that he exhausts, that he rejects all the sweet geometry we
"Bioy ha sido muy bueno y muy indulgente conmigo. El es una persona para la cual mi vida no tiene secretos".----Jorge Luis BorgesDurante cinco décadas de amistad y complicidad literaria, Adolfo Bioy Casares visitó infinidad de veces a Jorge Luis Borges.
