Dos fantasías memorables: Un modelo para la muerte

Jorge Luis Borges, Adolfo Bioy Casares

Gracewing Publishing, 1999 - 123 pages

Este volumen ren︢e dos muestras ms̀ de la fecunda y feliz colaboracin̤ entre Jorge Luis Borges y Adolfo Bioy Casares. Parodia dentro de la parodia, UN MODELO PARA LA MUERTE -relato de intriga que se inserta explc̕itamente en el mismo universo que el de los reunidos en "Seis problemas para don Isidro Parodi" (BA 0023)- lleva, sin embargo, los recursos y los personajes de esta obra al l︢timo extremo de la hilaridad (no en balde se public ̤con el pseudn̤imo comn︢ de B. Sur̀ez Lynch, que escribe un relato al modo de H. Bustos Domecq -pseudn̤imo comn︢ empleado para "Seis problemas"-, quien a su vez lo prologa).

Contents

• Section 1: 9
• Section 2: 41
• Section 3: 47
• Section 4: 61
• Section 5: 77
• Section 6: 83

About the author

Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1899, Jorge Borges was educated by an English governess and later studied in Europe. He returned to Buenos Aires in 1921, where he helped to found several avant-garde literary periodicals. In 1955, after the fall of Juan Peron, whom he vigorously opposed, he was appointed director of the Argentine National Library. With Samuel Beckett he was awarded the $10,000 International Publishers Prize in 1961, which helped to establish him as one of the most prominent writers in the world. Borges regularly taught and lectured throughout the United States and Europe. His ideas have been a profound influence on writers throughout the Western world and on the most recent developments in literary and critical theory. A prolific writer of essays, short stories, and plays, Borges's concerns are perhaps clearest in his stories. He regarded people's endeavors to understand an incomprehensible world as fiction; hence, his fiction is metaphysical and based on what he called an esthetics of the intellect. Some critics have called him a mystic of the intellect. Dreamtigers (1960) is considered a masterpiece. A central image in Borges's work is the labyrinth, a mental and poetic construct, that he considered a universe in miniature, which human beings build and therefore believe they control but which nevertheless traps them. In spite of Borges's belief that people cannot understand the chaotic world, he continually attempted to do so in his writing. Much of his work deals with people's efforts to find the center of the labyrinth, symbolic of achieving understanding of their place in a mysterious universe. In such later works as The Gold of the Tigers, Borges wrote of his lifelong descent into blindness and how it affected his perceptions of the world and himself as a writer. Borges died in Geneva in 1986.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Dos fantasías memorables: Un modelo para la muerte; Volume 32 of Biblioteca Borges, Jorge Luis Borges; Volume 32 of Biblioteca de autor; Volume 32 of El Libro de Bolsillo/Alianza Editorial Series; Volume 32 of Libro de bolsillo / Biblioteca de autor; Volume 32 of Libro de bolsillo: Alianza; Volume 32 of Libro de bolsillo: Biblioteca de autor
• Authors: Jorge Luis Borges, Adolfo Bioy Casares
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Gracewing Publishing, 1999
• ISBN: 842063879X, 9788420638799
• Length: 123 pages