The Book of Sand & Shakespeare's Memory

The Book of Sand & Shakespeare's Memory

By Jorge Luis Borges

Pages

158

Rating

4.11

Year

1975

FantasyMagical RealismFictionClassicsLiteratureShort Stories

Description

Jorge Luis Borges has been called the greatest Spanish-language writer of the twentieth century. Now Borges's remarkable last major story collection, The Book of Sand, is paired with a handful of writings from the very end of his life. Containing such marvelous tales as "The Congress," "Undr," "The Mirror and the Mask," and "The Rose of Paracelsus," this edition showcases Borges's depth of vision and superb image-conjuring power.

Brilliantly translated, these stories combine a direct and at times almost colloquial style coupled with Borges's signature fantastic inventiveness.