by Jorge Luis Borges · El País · tapa dura · ISBN 9788489669246
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«Historia universal de la infamia» is the collection of short stories by Jorge Luis Borges, published by El País in hardback (142 pages, in Spanish).
It brings together brief stories that mix fiction and history to narrate the exploits of sinister characters such as Billy the Kid. The volume is completed with a story of his own set in the outskirts of Buenos Aires at the beginning of the 20th century, in which the author's obsessions already appear: deceit, betrayal and violence.
Volume 4 of the Clásicos del Siglo XX collection from El País. The work was originally published in 1935.
Aimed at readers of short stories and those who want to delve into the work of Borges, a central figure of 20th-century Spanish-language literature.
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.
