Universal history of wickedness
Universal history of infamy is an anthology by the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges . It was published in Argentina in 1935 under the title Historia universal de la infamia and in 1961 initially under the title Der Schwarze Spiegel in German translation.
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This work is a collection of short stories, including mostly fictionalized biographies of historical figures such as Billy the Kid , Monk Eastman and Zheng Yisao . "All of them are short biographies of amazing crooks and adventurers, descriptions of nefarious résumés, stories of slave trade, piracy and bizarre impostures." Borges uses various literary techniques such as montages and cut-ups for his adaptation . In the foreword to the second edition from 1954, he himself states that his arrangements are about the “irresponsible game of a timid person who could not bring himself to write stories and made a pastime of trimming and twisting the stories of others (without any aesthetic justification) “act. The work marks the birth of magical realism in Latin American literature.
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- The Black Mirror , short stories, from the Spanish-Argentinian by Karl August Horst, Hanser 1961
- Stories: Universal History of Wickedness. Fictions. Das Aleph (Collected Works, Volume 5), Hanser 2000, ISBN 978-3446198784
Individual evidence
- ↑ Günter Blöcker: Universal history of wickedness. Review of the stories of the Argentine Jorge Luis Borges. In: The time . No. 51, 1961 ( online ).
- ↑ Jorge Luis Borges: The Black Mirror. Hanser 1961, p. 10.
- ↑ Angel Flores: Magical Realism in Spanish American Literature. In: Lois P. Zamora, Wendy B. Faris, Lois Parkinson Parkinsonzamora: Magical Realism - Theory, History, Community. Duke University Press, 1995, pp. 109-119.