The Book Of Sand And Shakespeare's Memory

Author: Jorge Luis Borges; Andrew Hurley (Translator)

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Price : 22.99 AUD
ISBN : 9780141183824
Publisher : Penguin Books, Limited
Imprint : Penguin Books, Limited
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Weight (g) : 0.14
Publication date : April 2001
Dimensions : 198mm X 129mm X 10mm
Produced in : United Kingdom
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Author : Jorge Luis Borges; Andrew Hurley (Translator)
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Edition : 0104/1
Pages : 176
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Translated with an Afterword by Andrew Hurley 'His stories - concise, playful, brimming with ideas - are among the century's supreme literary achievements' INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY While Borges remained fascinated by books, doubles, strange heresies, magic and the occult, his last two collections broke new ground in their astonishing range of themes. By the 1970s, Borges was frail, blind and bereft, and The Book of Sandis deeply concerned with loss, approaching death, identities rooted in past events and recollected sexual passion. Yet these painful issues are treated with bemused acceptance as well as characteristic inventiveness and wit. Equally haunting is the tale of the scholar who mysteriously acquires Shakespeare's memory and the other evocative parables which make up his final work. To the last, Borges retained a unique ability to shock and surprise.