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Overview

Ficciones es quizá el libro más famoso de Jorge Luis Borges; con él obtuvo en 1961 el importante Premio Formentor otorgado por editores de Alemania, España, Estados Unidos, Francia, Inglaterra e Italia. Obra imprescindible en la literatura contemporánea, sus cuentos pertenecen a la categoría de las páginas antológicas. La primera parte, El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan (1941), reune el relato policial del mismo nombre, dos notas sobre libros imaginarios: Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius y Examen de la obra de Herbert Quain, y cuatro cuentos de índole fantástica: Pierre Menard, autor del Quijote, Las ruinas circulares, La lotería en Babilonia y La biblioteca de Babel. En la segunda parte, Artificios (1944), se incluyen, entre otros, La muerte y la brújula, de corte filosófico-policial; Funes el memorioso, metáfora sobre el insomnio; Tema del traidor y del héroe, acerca de un mismo destino que pierde y que redime; y El Sur, cuento preferido del autor.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780679422990
  • Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
  • Publication date: 5/28/1993
  • Pages: 192
  • Sales rank: 336,058
  • Series: Everyman's Library
  • Product dimensions: 5.15 (w) x 8.30 (h) x 0.70 (d)

Meet the Author

Jorge Luis Borges
Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) es uno de los escritores mÁs destacados del siglo veinte. Sus obras incluyen cuentos, poesÍa y ensayos. Fue director de la Biblioteca Nacional en Argentina por dieciocho aÑos y, en el Ínterin, fue nombrado doctor honoris causa por la Universidad de Columbia y la Universidad de Oxford, entre otras. Borges fue galardonado con numerosos premios literarios en el transcurso de su carrera, entre los cuales se encuentra el Premio Internacional de Literatura que compartiÓ con Samuel Beckett, otorgado por el Congreso Internacional de Editores en Formentor, Mallorca.

Biography

Jorge Luis Borges was born in Buenos Aires in 1899 and was educated in Europe. One of the most widely acclaimed writers of the 20th century, he published many collections of poems, essays, and short stories before his death in Geneva in June 1986.

In 1961, Borges shared the International Publishers' prize with Samuel Beckett. In 1971, Columbia University awarded him the first of many degrees of Doctor of Letters, honoris causa, that he was to receive from the English-speaking world -- eventually, the list included both Oxford and Cambridge universities. In 1971 he also received the fifth biennial Jerusalem Prize and in 1973 was given one of Mexico's most prestigious cultural awards, the Alfonso Reyes Prize. In 1980 he shared with Gerardo Diego the Cervantes Prize, the Spanish-speaking world's highest literary accolade.

Borges was director of the Argentine National Library from 1955 until 1973.

Author biography courtesy of Penguin Group (USA)

Good To Know

Borges began writing at the age of six, mostly fantasy stories inspired by Cervantes. When he was nine, he translated Oscar Wilde's The Happy Prince into Spanish, and the piece was published in El País, a local newspaper.

To the outrage of his followers, Borges never did receive the Nobel prize. "Not granting me the Nobel Prize has become a Scandinavian tradition," Borges once quipped. "Since I was born they have not been granting it to me."

Several of Borges's short stories have been adapted for the movies, most recently Death and the Compass (1996), directed by Alex Cox (Repo Man).

    1. Date of Birth:
      August 24, 1899
    2. Place of Birth:
      Buenos Aires, Argentina
    1. Date of Death:
      June 14, 1986
    2. Place of Death:
      Geneva, Switzerland
    1. Education:
      B.A., Collège Calvin de Genève, 1914

First Chapter

Ficciones

Capítulo Uno

Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius

Debo a la conjunción de un espejo y de una enciclopedia el descubrimiento de Uqbar. El espejo inquietaba el fondo de un corredor en una quinta de la calle Gaona, en Ramos Mejía; la enciclopedia falazmente se llama The Anglo-American Cyclopaedia (Nueva York, 1917) y es una reimpresión literal, pero también morosa, de la Encyclopaedia Britannica de 1902. El hecho se produjo hará unos cinco años. Bioy Casares había cenado conmigo esa noche y nos demoró una vasta polémica sobre la ejecución de una novela en primera persona, cuyo narrador omitiera o desfigurara los hechos e incurriera en diversas contradicciones, que permitieran a unos pocos lectores—a muy pocos lectores—la adivinación de una realidad atroz o banal. Desde el fondo remoto del corredor, el espejo nos acechaba. Descubrimos (en la alta noche ese descubrimiento es inevitable) que los espejos tienen algo monstruoso. Entonces Bioy Casares recordó que uno de los heresiarcas de Uqbar había declarado que los espejos y la cópula son abominables, porque multiplican el número de los hombres. Le pregunté el origen de esa memorable sentencia y me contestó que The Anglo-American Cyclopaedia la registraba, en su artículo sobre Uqbar. La quinta (que habíamos alquilado amueblada) poseía un ejemplar de esa obra. En las últimas páginas del volumen XLVI dimos con un artículo sobre Upsala; en las primeras del XLVII, con uno sobre Ural-Altaic Languages, pero ni una palabra sobre Uqbar. Bioy, unpoco azorado, interrogó los tomos del índice. Agotó en vano todas las lecciones imaginables: Ukbar, Ucbar, Ooqbar, Oukbahr... Antes de irse, me dijo que era una región del Irak o del Asia Menor. Confieso que asentí con alguna incomodidad. Conjeturé que ese país indocumentado y ese heresiarca anónimo eran una ficción improvisada por la modestia de Bioy para justificar una frase. El examen estéril de uno de los atlas de Justus Perthes fortaleció mi duda.

Al día siguiente, Bioy me llamó desde Buenos Aires. Me dijo que tenía a la vista el artículo sobre Uqbar, en el volumen XXVI de la Enciclopedia. No constaba el nombre del heresiarca, pero sí la noticia de su doctrina, formulada en palabras casi idénticas a las repetidas por él, aunque—tal vez—literariamente inferiores. Él había recordado: Copulation and mirrors are abominable. El texto de la Enciclopedia decía: Para uno de esos gnósticos, el visible universo era una ilusión o (más precisamente) un sofisma. Los espejos y la paternidad son abominables (mirrors and fatherhood are hateful) porque lo multiplican y lo divulgan. Le dije, sin faltar a la verdad, que me gustaría ver ese artículo. A los pocos días lo trajo. Lo cual me sorprendió, porque los escrupulosos índices cartográficos de la Erdkunde de Ritter ignoraban con plenitud el nombre de Uqbar.

El volumen que trajo Bioy era efectivamente el XXVI de la Anglo-American Cyclopaedia. En la falsa carátula y en el lomo, la indicación alfabética (Tor-Ups) era la de nuestro ejemplar, pero en vez de 917 páginas constaba de 921. Esas cuatro páginas adicionales comprendían el artículo sobre Uqbar; no previsto (como habrá advertido el lector) por la indicación alfabética. Comprobamos después que no hay otra diferencia entre los volúmenes. Los dos (según creo haber indicado) son reimpresiones de la décima Encyclopaedia Britannica. Bioy había adquirido su ejemplar en uno de tantos remates.

Leímos con algún cuidado el artículo. El pasaje recordado por Bioy era tal vez el único sorprendente. El resto parecía muy verosímil, muy ajustado al tono general de la obra y (como es natural) un poco aburrido. Releyéndolo, descubrimos bajo su rigurosa escritura una fundamental vaguedad. De los catorce nombres que figuraban en la parte geográfica, sólo reconocimos tres—Jorasán, Armenia, Erzerum—, interpolados en el texto de un modo ambiguo. De los nombres históricos, uno solo: el impostor Esmerdis el mago, invocado más bien como una metáfora. La nota parecía precisar las fronteras de Uqbar, pero sus nebulosos puntos de referencias eran ríos y cráteres y cadenas de esa misma región. Leímos, verbigracia, que las tierras bajas de Tsai Jaldún y el delta del Axa definen la frontera del sur y que en las islas de ese delta procrean los caballos salvajes. Eso, al principio de la página 918. En la sección histórica (página 920) supimos que a raíz de las persecuciones religiosas del siglo XIII, los ortodoxos buscaron amparo en las islas, donde perduran todavía sus obeliscos y donde no es raro exhumar sus espejos de piedra. La sección idioma y literatura era breve. Un solo rasgo memorable: anotaba que la literatura de Uqbar era de carácter fantástico y que sus epopeyas y sus leyendas no se referían jamás a la realidad, sino a las dos regiones imaginarias de Mlejnas y de Tlön... La bibliografía enumeraba cuatro volúmenes que no hemos encontrado hasta ahora, aunque el tercero—Silas Haslam: History of the Land Called Uqbar, 1874—figura en los catálogos de librería de Bernard Quaritch . El primero, Lesbare und lesenswerthe Bemerkungen über das Land Ukkbar in Klein-Asien, data de 1641 y es obra de Johannes Valentinus Andreä. El hecho es significativo; un par de años después, di con ese nombre en las inesperadas páginas de De Quincey (Writings, decimotercer volumen) y supe que era el de un teólogo alemán que a principios del siglo XVII describió la imaginaria comunidad de la Rosa-Cruz—que otros luego fundaron, a imitación de lo prefigurado por él.

Esta noche visitamos la Biblioteca Nacional. En vano fatigamos atlas, catálogos, anuarios de sociedades geográficas, memorias de viajeros e historiadores: nadie había estado nunca en Uqbar. El índice general de la enciclopedia de Bioy tampoco registraba ese nombre. Al día siguiente, Carlos Mastronardi (a quien yo había referido el asunto) advirtió en una librería de Corrientes y Talcahuano los negros y dorados lomos de la Anglo-American Cyclopaedia... Entró e interrogó el volumen XXVI. Naturalmente, no dio con el menor indicio de Uqbar.

Ficciones. Copyright © by Jorge Luis Borges. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved. Available now wherever books are sold.

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  • Anonymous

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    Strange, thought-provoking

    Borges' stories here are vehicles for proposing philosophical quandaries, more or less, and they range from perplexing realistic tales to the imaginatively fantastic. His prose is well-constructed as well. The stories are fairly short and don't take long to read, but their baffling implications are remembered long after.

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