Milivoj Telećan Kolejność książek (chronologicznie)

'César Montero was dreaming about elephants. He'd seen them at the movies on Sunday . . . ' Only moments later, César is led away by police as they clear the crowds away from the man he has just killed. But César is not the only man to be riled by the rumours being spread in his Colombian hometown - under the cover of darkness, someone creeps through the streets sticking malicious posters to walls and doors. Each night the respectable townsfolk retire to their beds fearful that they will be the subject of the following morning's lampoons. As paranoia seeps through the town and the delicate veil of tranquility begins to slip, can the perpetrator be uncovered before accusation and violence leave the inhabitants' sanity in tatters?

Drugi (po opus magnum, Fikcjach) koronny zbiór skondensowanych, ale jakże pojemnych i zapładniających wyobraźnię opowiadań Borgesa. Dzięki nim zdobył miejsce w panteonie największych i najbardziej inspirujących pisarzy ubiegłego stulecia. Fikcje i Alef gromadzą wszystkie najistotniejsze Borgesowskie wątki i motywy, które gdzie indziej ulegają rozwinięciu czy przekształceniu, w myśl tezy, że liczba fabuł jest nieskończona. Tym razem Alefa prezentujemy po raz pierwszy w całości przełożonego przez człowieka, który całe życie oddał Borgesowi i bibliotece, a którego pierwszy polski przekład Borgesa ukazał się w 1966 roku.

Sogni profetici, sogni fallaci, incubi impressionanti, tratti dalla Bibbia, dall'Odissea, dalle Mille e una notte

The seventeen pieces in Ficciones demonstrate the gargantuan powers of imagination, intelligence, and style of one of the greatest writers of this or any other century. Borges sends us on a journey into a compelling, bizarre, and profoundly resonant realm; we enter the fearful sphere of Pascal's abyss, the surreal and literal labyrinth of books, and the iconography of eternal return. More playful and approachable than the fictions themselves are Borges's Prologues, brief elucidations that offer the uninitiated a passageway into the whirlwind of Borges's genius and mirror the precision and potency of his intellect and inventiveness, his piercing irony, his skepticism, and his obsession with fantasy. To enter the worlds in Ficciones is to enter the mind of Jorge Luis Borges, wherein lies Heaven, Hell, and everything in between.

In his writing, Borges always combined high seriousness with a wicked sense of fun. Here he reveals his delight in re-creating (or making up) colorful stories from the Orient, the Islamic world, and the Wild West, as well as his horrified fascination with knife fights, political and personal betrayal, and bloodthirsty revenge. Spark-ling with the sheer exuberant pleasure of story-telling, this collection marked the emergence of an utterly distinctive literary voice.

Kratki roman "O ljubavi i drugim nečistim silama" Gabriela Garcíe Márqueza, smješten u kolonijalnu južnoameričku luku, u vremena inkvizicije, markiza i biskupa, gusara, robova i gubavaca, čudnovata je priča o sudbini markizice Sierva Marije osumnjičene za opsjednutost demonskim silama. Na prvi pogled roman "O ljubavi i drugim nečistim silama" (prvi puta objavljen godine 1994.) doima se kao zagubljeno poglavlje remek djela "Sto godina samoće": u nekoliko elegantnih književnih pirueta García Márquez je evocirao kulise jednog egzotičnog i snovitog svijeta da bi ispričao storiju o nemogućnosti ljubavi. Roman "O ljubavi i drugim nečistim silama" je, dakle, magični realizam u svojoj najčišćoj formi, a po romantičnosti, maštovitost i ljepoti jedan od najmaestralnijih autorovih književnih uradaka. Savršeno ispripovijedana, lakog stila, začinjenog bljeskovima karipskog humora i mudrosti, ova neodoljiva i nezaboravna, tipično markesovska priča o melankoličnosti ljudske prirode i najgoroj od svih nečistih sila – ljubavi – odmah je osvojila čitateljska srca a danas je pravi markesovski dragulj, koji mnogi drže jednim od najljepših doprinosa južnoameričkoj književnosti.