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El hacedor / the Maker (Spanish Edition) [Paperback]

Jorge Luis Borges (Author)
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March 30, 2008
Caracterizan las paginas de El hacedor el cruce de generos (relatos, ensayos y poemas) y la diversidad tematica. Homero y Dante alternan con Rosas y Facundo; la fantasia que inventa laberintos ineditos, con la cronica de sucesos aparentemente triviales pero cargados de insospechadas significaciones; el particularismo criollo, con la universalidad historica que abarca tanto la simbologia oriental como la cultura europea. «De cuantos libros he entregado a la imprenta -escribio el propio Jorge Luis Borges- ninguno, creo, es tan personal como esta colectiva y desordenada silva de varia lección.
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Product Details

  • Paperback: 142 pages
  • Publisher: Emece (March 30, 2008)
  • Language: Spanish
  • ISBN-10: 950042701X
  • ISBN-13: 978-9500427012
  • Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.2 x 0.4 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,707,974 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A great introduction to Borges ..., October 17, 2003
This review is from: El Hacedor (Paperback)
A long time ago, my teacher recommended me to read this book, because it was a great introduction to Borges. She was right: I loved it, and due to that was curious enough to go on reading other books written by him.

"El Hacedor" includes several short stories and some poems. All of them are quite different, but deeply original. My favorite is a poem called "Poema de los dones", where he tries to convey the great irony of the fact that he was made director of Argentina's National Library just when he was losing his sight. Poignant, caustic, but so "Borges", this poem is one of the best ones I've read. I'll copy part of it, so you can have an idea of what it is like:

"Nadie rebaje a lágrima o reproche
esta declaración de la maestría
de Dios, que con magnífica ironía
me dio a la vez los libros y la noche.

De esta ciudad de libros hizo dueños
a unos ojos sin luz, que sólo pueden
leer en las bibliotecas de los sueños
los insensatos párrafos que ceden
las albas a su afán. En vano el día
les prodiga sus libros infinitos,
arduos como los arduos manuscritos
que perecieron en Alejandría.

De hambre y de sed (narra una historia griega)
muere un rey entre fuentes y jardines;
yo fatigo sin rumbo los confines
de esa alta y honda biblioteca ciega.

Enciclopedias, atlas, el Oriente
y el Occidente, siglos, dinastías,
símbolos, cosmos y cosmogonías
brindan los muros, pero inútilmente.

Lento en mi sombra, la penumbra hueca
exploro con el báculo indeciso,
yo, que me figuraba el Paraíso
bajo la especie de una biblioteca".

I've read this poem many times, but every time I re-read it I marvel at how well he was able to write... The poem continues but if you want to read more, read the book. It's really worth it !!! :)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Los relatos en El Hacedor, September 25, 2008
Además de poesía, este libro incluye algunos de los mejores relatos de Borges.

Ésta es la lista de los cuentos:

A Leopoldo Lugones

El hacedor

Dreamtigers

Diálogo sobre un diálogo

Las uñas

Los espejos velados

Argumentum ornithologicum

El cautivo

El simulacro

Delia Elena San Marco

Diálogo de muertos

La trama

Un problema

Una rosa amarilla

El testigo

Martín Fierro

Mutaciones

Parábola de Cervantes y del Quijote

Paradiso, XXXI, 108

Parábola del palacio

Everything and nothing

Ragnarök

Inferno, I, 32

Borges y yo

Museo
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