Brodie's Report: Including the Prose Fiction from In Praise of Darkness (Penguin Modern Classics)

by JorgeLuisBorges (Author), Andrew Hurley (Translator)

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2006
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The art of writing is mysterious; the opinions we hold are ephemeral. In these eleven short stories, the quality of his inspiration is unmistakable. With their deceptively simple, almost laconic style, they achieve a magical impression that is unrivalled in modern writing.

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The art of writing is mysterious; the opinions we hold are ephemeral. In these eleven short stories, the quality of his inspiration is unmistakable. With their deceptively simple, almost laconic style, they achieve a magical impression that is unrivalled in modern writing.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 144
Edition: New Ed
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published: 28 Sep 2006
ISBN 10: 0141183861
ISBN 13: 9780141183862

Media Reviews

[Borges] renovated the language of fiction and thus opened the way to a remarkable generation of Spanish-American novelists. (J.M. Coetzee, The New York Review of Books ) Hurley's efforts at retranslating Borges are not anything but heroic. His versions are clear, elegant, crystalline. ( The Times Literary Supplement )

Author Bio

Borges was born in Buenos Aires in 1899. A poet, critic and short story writer, he received numerous awards for his work including the 1961 International Publisher's Prize (shared with Samuel Beckett). He died in 1986. He has a reasonable claim, with Kafka and Joyce, to be the most influential writer of the twentieth century.