Tlon Uqbar Orbis Tertius - Softcover

Borges, Jorge Luis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0889840725 ISBN 13: 9780889840720

Publisher: Porcupines Quill, 1982

Synopsis

`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

Edition details

• Publisher: Porcupines Quill
• Publication date: 1982
• ISBN 10: 0889840725
• ISBN 13: 9780889840720
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English