The Book of Sand and Shakespeare’s Memory - Jorge Luis Borges

Category: Anthology, Fantasy
Language: English
Keywords: Latin American Magical Realism Penguin Classics Short Story Collection Spanish Literature

Written by Jorge Luis Borges
Read by Castulo Guerra
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

‘One of the most remarkable artists of our age’ - Mario Vargas Llosa

The acclaimed translation of Borges’s valedictory stories, in its first stand-alone edition

Jorge Luis Borges has been called the greatest Spanish-language writer of the twentieth century. Now Borges’s remarkable last major story collection, The Book of Sand, is paired with a handful of writings from the very end of his life. Brilliantly translated, these stories combine a direct and at times almost colloquial style coupled with Borges’s signature fantastic inventiveness. Containing such marvelous tales as “The Congress,” “Undr,” “The Mirror and the Mask,” and “The Rose of Paracelsus,” this edition showcases Borges’s depth of vision and superb image-conjuring power.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Length: 6 hrs and 26 mins
Release date: 08-22-23