Brodie's Report

Name: Brodie's Report
SKU: 1743868
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By:

Jorge Luis Borges

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Series:

Penguin Modern Classics

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At the age of seventy, after a gap of twenty years, Jorge Luis Borges returned to writing short stories. In Brodie's Report and In Praise of Darkness he returned also to the style of his earlier years with its brutal realism, its nightmares and its bloodshed. Many of these stories, such as 'Unworthy' and 'The Other Duel', are set in the macho Argentinian underworld, although even the rivalries between academics or artists, as in 'The Duel', are shot through with suppressed violence. Fascinated yet appalled by the rituals of conquest, betrayal and bloodthirsty revenge, Borges vividly exposes the deepest roots of human cruely and political oppression.

Author Biography:

Jorge Luis Borges was born in Buenos Aires in 1899 and was educated in Europe. One of the most widely acclaimed writers of our time, he published many collections of poems, essays and short stories before his death in Geneva in 1986. He was director of the Argentine National Library from 1955 until 1973. Mario Vargas Llosa, in a tribute to Borges, has written- 'His is a world of clear, pure, and at the same time unusual ideas expressed in words of great directness and restraint. He was a superb storyteller. One reads most of Borges' tales with the hypnotic interest usually reserved for reading detective fiction...'

Release date NZ

October 5th, 2000

Author

Jorge Luis Borges

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Contributor

Translated by Andrew Hurley

Country of Publication

United Kingdom

Imprint

Penguin Classics

Pages

144

Publisher

Penguin Books Ltd

Series

Penguin Modern Classics

Dimensions

129x198x8

ISBN-13

9780141183862

Product ID

1743868

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