by Jorge Luis Borges · Alianza · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420633138
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«El libro de arena» is the short story collection by Jorge Luis Borges, published by Alianza Editorial in paperback (140 pages, in Spanish).
A collection of thirteen stories in which Borges combines a plain, almost oral style with impossible plots, exploring infinity, mirrors, books, and identities that split. The author himself singled out «El Congreso» as one of his most autobiographical and fantastic texts.
This 1997 edition belongs to the Biblioteca Borges of Alianza Editorial's El Libro de Bolsillo. The work was originally published in 1975.
Recommended for readers of fantastic literature and admirers of short fiction in Spanish.
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.
