Painting Borges

Painting Borges
Author: Jorge J. E. Gracia
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 325
Release: 2012-02-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1438441770

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A provocative examination of the artistic interpretation of twelve of Borges’s most famous stories.

Norah Borges

Norah Borges
Author: Eamon McCarthy
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2020-09-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1786836319

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Norah Borges (1901–98) was the sister of the celebrated Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges. She first began producing art in Switzerland, where her family was trapped during the First World War, and travelled to Spain before returning to her native Argentina with her new styles of painting. In the 1920s, her work was published on the covers of important cultural magazines, but she is now largely forgotten. In her works, Borges created a world full of almost angelic figures – describing it as a smaller, more perfect world – mostly a serene space dominated by women. This book explores how Borges created that space and developed her own unique style of painting, studying the connections she made with the leading artists and writers of her time.

Borges' Paintings

Borges' Paintings
Author: Ramón Felipe Borges
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2021-03-02
Genre:
ISBN: 9781034549871

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BORGES' PAINTINGS: Paintings that tell storiesIn this book, Borges' Paintings, we take a fascinating journey through his poems and pictorial interpretation of myths, metaphors, and memories giving meaning to our history and culture. Employing the language of art and poetry, in this series of paintings, Borges examines the mythology and allegories defining our identity, character, and experiences in life. Various aspects of our existence dealing with morality, creativity, emotion, heroism, and tragedy are represented in these paintings of myths, landscapes, and still lifes, to convey the intended narrative from a region. A must reading for art lovers and in particular for those seeking to understand or discover, that paintings also tells stories. These are our stories.

Borges and His Successors

Borges and His Successors
Author: Edna Aizenberg
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Total Pages: 324
Release: 1990
Genre: Literature
ISBN: 9780826207128

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"In the first book devoted to the impact made by Borges on the contemporary aesthetic imagination, Aizenberg brings together specially commissioned essays from international scholars in a variety of disciplines to provide a wide-ranging assessment of Borges's influence on the fiction, literary theory, and arts of our time."--Publishers website.

Labyrinths

Labyrinths
Author: Jorge Luis Borges
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Total Pages: 292
Release: 1964
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780811200127

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Forty short stories and essays have been selected as representative of the Argentine writer's metaphysical narratives.

The Oxford Handbook of Jorge Luis Borges

The Oxford Handbook of Jorge Luis Borges
Author: Oxford Handbooks
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 673
Release: 2024
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 0197535275

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"The Oxford Handbook of Jorge Luis Borges consists of thirty-five chapters, organized into four main categories: Borges's life, his representative work traced across the many decades of his writing, his work in collaboration, and his reception in literature and other disciplines. The volume highlights current debates among Borges scholars as a way to reevaluate how the physical forms and sociopolitical contexts of Borges's writings both shaped and determined specific readerships around the world. Alongside these novel approaches to Borges's fictions and nonfictions, this Handbook is the first of its kind to dedicate space to the reception of Borges's works in the fields of philosophy, the visual arts, film, political science, media theory, mathematics, and law. The collection also goes further to trace Borges's activity in the public sphere, including local and national politics and the functioning of cultural institutions. To date, no other collection devoted to his writings or life addresses these issues in depth, nor do they consider how his affiliations and interests change over the course of his long life. Incorporating these broader perspectives into this Handbook serves to bring out tensions, continuities, and discontinuities in Borges's work, allowing for a much more nuanced understanding of it. Jorge Luis Borges, literary studies, literary history, reception, Argentine literature, Latin American literature"--

Reading Borges after Benjamin

Reading Borges after Benjamin
Author: Kate Jenckes
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 188
Release: 2012-02-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0791480569

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This book explores the relationship between time, life, and history in the work of Jorge Luis Borges and examines his work in relation to his contemporary, Walter Benjamin. By focusing on texts from the margins of the Borges canon—including the early poems on Buenos Aires, his biography of Argentina's minstrel poet Evaristo Carriego, the stories and translations from A Universal History of Infamy, as well as some of his renowned stories and essays—Kate Jenckes argues that Borges's writing performs an allegorical representation of history. Interspersed among the readings of Borges are careful and original readings of some of Benjamin's finest essays on the relationship between life, language, and history. Reading Borges in relationship to Benjamin draws out ethical and political implications from Borges's works that have been largely overlooked by his critics.

Norah Borges

Norah Borges
Author: Eamon McCarthy
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2020-09-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1786836327

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This is the first book to give an overview of Norah Borges’s artistic output as whole. This is important as other studies have limited themselves to her work as an illustrator or have focussed wholly on her early works. It contains 30 images of her work, which will allow readers to gain a sense of the changes in her style. This is the first book-length study of Norah Borges to be written in English, which opens up her works to a non Spanish-speaking audience for the first time.

The Lizard

The Lizard
Author: Jose Saramago
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Total Pages: 24
Release: 2020-02-04
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1609809343

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A story by Nobel Prize-winning writer Jose Saramago, gorgeously illustrated in woodcuts by one of Brazil's most famous artists. When a lizard appears in the neighborhood of Chiado, in Lisbon, it surprises passers-by, and mobilizes firefighters and the army. With a clear and precise style, the fable offers a multitude of senses, reaching audiences of all ages. "The Lizard" is a short story included in A Bagagem do Viajante (1973), a volume that brought together the Saramago chronicles for the newspaper A Capital and the weekly Jornal do Fundão between 1971 and 1972. Translated by Nick Caistor and Lucia Caistor, The Lizard, is an illustrated version of the chronicle by J. Borges.

The Old Patagonian Express

The Old Patagonian Express
Author: Paul Theroux
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 506
Release: 2014-11-18
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 0547524005

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The acclaimed travel writer journeys by train across the Americas from Boston to Patagonia in this international bestselling travel memoir. Starting with a rush-hour subway ride to South Station in Boston to catch the Lake Shore Limited to Chicago, Paul Theroux takes a grand railway adventure first across the United States and then south through Mexico, Central America, and across the Andes until he winds up on the meandering Old Patagonian Express steam engine. His epic commute finally comes to a halt in a desolate land of cracked hills and thorn bushes that reaches toward Antarctica. Along the way, Theroux demonstrates how train travel can reveal “"the social miseries and scenic splendors” of a continent. And through his perceptive prose we learn that what matters most are the people he meets along the way, including the monologuing Mr. Thornberry in Costa Rica, the bogus priest of Cali, and the blind Jorge Luis Borges, who delights in having Theroux read Robert Louis Stevenson to him.