Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius

Borges, Jorge Luis

ISBN 10: 0889840725 / ISBN 13: 9780889840720

Editore: The Porcupine's Quill, Ontario, 1983

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Ontario: The Porcupine's Quill, 1983. Octavo. Soft cover. Previous owner's signature to the first free end paper. Modest fading to the edges of the covers and a bit of rubbing along the spine. Rare. Very good. Codice articolo 004599

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Titolo: Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius

Casa editrice: The Porcupine's Quill, Ontario

Data di pubblicazione: 1983

Legatura: Soft cover

Illustratore: Rikki

Condizione: Very Good

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`Here is a handsome edition of one of Borges' ficciones, in a translation first published in Labyrinths in 1962. It's an important story in the Borges' canon, incorporating most of the author's philosophical and esthetic preoccupations in a typically brief compass. With great solemnity and a convincing array of scholarly detail (including annotated references to imaginary books and articles), Borges contocts a fable of an alternate world and its infiltration of our own. The reality of Tlon is idealist: material objects have no existence; language has no nouns; its principal discipline is psychology, since its inhabitants see the universe as nothing but a series of mental processes. A series of 24 illustrations accompanies the text. Their disturbing resemblances to our reality make them appropriate reflections of Borges's imaginative constructs.' -- The Kingston Whig-Standard