by Jorge Luis Borges · Siruela · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788485876556
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«Cuentos argentinos» is the anthology of short stories selected and introduced by Jorge Luis Borges, published by Siruela in 1986.
Borges selects Argentine short stories from the twentieth century and, in the introduction, explains that his country's literature, after gaucho poetry, has leaned towards fantastic literature rather than the transcription of reality. The anthology, admittedly partial, lets a voice linked to the solitary spaces of the South be heard.
Volume 30 of the La Biblioteca de Babel collection, from Ediciones Siruela. It consists of 128 pages and is written in Spanish.
For readers interested in Argentine fantastic narrative and in Borges's work as an anthologist.
Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator regarded as a key figure in Spanish-language and international literature. His best-known works, Ficciones (transl. Fictions) and El Aleph, published in the 1940s, are collections of short stories exploring motifs such as dreams, labyrinths, chance, infinity, archives, mirrors, fictional writers, and mythology. Borges's works have contributed to philosophical literature and the fantasy genre, and have had a major influence on the magical realist movement in 20th century Latin American literature.
