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Dreamtigers
Jorge Luis Borges
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Description for Dreamtigers
Paperback. Composed of poems, parables, and stories, sketches and apocryphal quotations, this book explores the mysterious territory that lies between the dreams of the creative artist and the "real" world. Translator(s): Boyer, Mildred Vinson; Morland, Harold. Series: Texas Pan American Series. Num Pages: 96 pages, illus. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 151 x 226 x 8. Weight in Grams: 164.
Dreamtigers has been heralded as one of the literary masterpieces of the twentieth century by Mortimer J. Adler, editor of Great Books of the Western World. It has been acknowledged by its author as his most personal work. Composed of poems, parables, and stories, sketches and apocryphal quotations, Dreamtigers at first glance appears to be a sampler—albeit a dazzling one—of the master's work. Upon closer examination, however, the reader discovers the book to be a subtly and organically unified self-revelation.
Dreamtigers explores the mysterious territory that lies between the dreams of the creative artist and the "real" world. The central vision ... Read more
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
1964
Publisher
University of Texas Press United States
Number of pages
96
Condition
New
Series
Texas Pan American Series
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
Austin, TX, United States
ISBN
9780292715493
SKU
V9780292715493
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99-50
About Jorge Luis Borges
First published in Buenos Aires in 1960 as El Hacedor, Dreamtigers was translated into English by Mildred Boyer, professor emerita of romance languages at the University of Texas at Austin, and the poet Harold Morland. The late Miguel Enguídanos, who was Centennial Professor of Spanish at Vanderbilt University, wrote the introduction to this volume, which is enhanced by woodcuts by ... Read more
Reviews for Dreamtigers
One feels in Dreamtigers a calm, an intimation of a truce, a tranquil fragility. Like so many last or near-last works... Dreamtigers preserves the author's life-long concerns, but drained of urgency; horror has yielded to a resigned humorousness
John Updike
New Yorker
John Updike
New Yorker