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Dreamtigers (Texas Pan American Series) Paperback – January 1, 1964

by Jorge Luis Borges (Author), Antonio Frasconi (Illustrator), Mildred Boyer (Translator),
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Dreamtigers has been heralded as one of the literary masterpieces of the twentieth century by Mortimer J. Adler, editor of Great Books of the Western World. It has been acknowledged by its author as his most personal work. Composed of poems, parables, and stories, sketches and apocryphal quotations, Dreamtigers at first glance appears to be a sampler—albeit a dazzling one—of the master's work. Upon closer examination, however, the reader discovers the book to be a subtly and organically unified self-revelation.

Dreamtigers explores the mysterious territory that lies between the dreams of the creative artist and the "real" world. The central vision of the work is that of a recluse in the "enveloping serenity " of a library, looking ahead to the time when he will have disappeared but in the timeless world of his books will continue his dialogue with the immortals of the past — Homer, Don Quixote, Shakespeare. Like Homer, the maker of these dreams is afflicted with failing sight. Still, he dreams of tigers real and imagined and reflects upon of a life that, above all, has been intensely introspective, a life of calm self-possession and absorption in the world of the imagination. At the same time he is keenly aware of that other Borges, the public figure about whom he reads with mixed emotions: "It's the other one, it's Borges, that things happen to."

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  1. Print length
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    January 1, 1964
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  6. ISBN-10
    0292715498
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0292715493
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One feels in Dreamtigers a calm, an intimation of a truce, a tranquil fragility. Like so many last or near-last works... Dreamtigers preserves the author's life-long concerns, but drained of urgency; horror has yielded to a resigned humorousness -- John Updike ― New Yorker

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One feels in Dreamtigers a calm, an intimation of a truce, a tranquil fragility. Like so many last or near-last works... Dreamtigers preserves the author's life-long concerns, but drained of urgency; horror has yielded to a resigned humorousness -- John Updike ― New Yorker

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ University of Texas Press; 13th ed. edition (January 1, 1964)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 96 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0292715498
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0292715493
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 11.2 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.3 x 9 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
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Jorge Luis Borges

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Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges KBE (/ˈbɔːrhɛs/; Spanish: [ˈxorxe ˈlwis ˈborxes] 24 August 1899 - 14 June 1986), was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish language literature. His work embraces the "character of unreality in all literature". His best-known books, Ficciones (Fictions) and El Aleph (The Aleph), published in the 1940s, are compilations of short stories interconnected by common themes, including dreams, labyrinths, libraries, mirrors, fictional writers, philosophy, and religion. Literary critics have described Borges as Latin America's monumental writer.

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  • T.U. Scott
    5.0 out of 5 stars Very Borges at His Best in My Taste
    Reviewed in the United States on April 5, 2025
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    Among all the writings of Jorge Luis Borges in a book form, I’ve chosen this small, humble-looking book. I like the stories told in introduction. I like all the stories, starting with his dedication to a friend who was already left life behind.
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  • Gentlestingbetween
    5.0 out of 5 stars An old favorite
    Reviewed in the United States on October 24, 2017
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    This book is nothing short of magical. The way Mr. Borges thinks and writes is set apart. Definitely a book you will want to own.
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  • WL Winter
    5.0 out of 5 stars A Classic
    Reviewed in the United States on February 18, 2021
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    A must read...
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  • Nuri K
    4.0 out of 5 stars Reads very different than most other books of Borges
    Reviewed in the United States on July 7, 2013
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    This was one of the few books of Borges that I haven't read (over and over).
    The selection of aphorism-stories and poetry in this book does not have the immaculate, carved-to-perfection quality characterizing better-known stories of Borges, they almost read like early drafts at times. At times, this feels just as enjoyable and even refreshing, at other times I found myself missing the Borges-virtuosity, say, in Aleph.
    That being said, it's a quick, and overall amusing read for any Borges fan (but not recommended as an introduction to his works).
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  • Belle
    5.0 out of 5 stars Magico-realism master work
    Reviewed in the United States on February 17, 2014
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    I read a couple of entries and am delighted with it, inspired me to write. I recommend it to anyone who loves the magico-realism of Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
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  • Denise DePriest
    5.0 out of 5 stars Nice
    Reviewed in the United States on November 25, 2019
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  • dc
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in the United States on March 27, 2018
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    a classic treasure...
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  • Jaguar
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in the United States on August 31, 2015
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    Perhaps this is the best book by Borges.
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  • T. Alan Parry
    5.0 out of 5 stars CLassic Borges
    Reviewed in Canada on January 6, 2024
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    Whether you are familiar with the work of Borges or to know whether where to start this work is not to be missed.
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  • matt
    5.0 out of 5 stars ' This quote is taken from the afterword of this truly beautiful collection. What Borges was aiming to create in ...
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 3, 2015
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    'A man sets himself the task of portraying the world. Through the years he peoples a space with images of provinces, kingdoms, mountains, bays, ships, islands, fishes, rooms, instruments, stars, horses, and people. Shortly before his death, he discovers that that patient labyrinth of lines traces the image of his face.'

    This quote is taken from the afterword of this truly beautiful collection.

    What Borges was aiming to create in Dreamtigers (or El hacedor [The Maker], its original Spanish title) was the accumulation of fragments, parables and poems that 'serve no other purpose than to show what time accumulates in the bottom of a writer's desk drawer'. Yet what he has created here is a wonderful and truly personal depiction of the brilliant man’s mind, and the experiences throughout the years of his long life that helped to shape it .

    The style of all of these pieces is prototypically Borges, none of the parables or poems going beyond 2 or 3 pages in length, and all containing many of the themes we come to associate with the great Argentinian poet: time, infinity, dreams, tigers, Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Mirrors, Cervantes, Norse mythology, etc. However there seems to be something that stands alone in Dreamtigers, a somewhat lonely, melancholy which ends in the infinite quest for identity.

    When describing El hacedor Borges alludes to the fact that he wants this work to be thought of as most truly ‘him’: 'For good or for ill, my readers, these fragments piled up here by time are all that I am. The earlier work no longer matters'. He, at the time of this publication was not yet an old man, yet his sight had already started to degrade, the world which he had so vividly painted in his earlier work was slowly slipping away from him. Perhaps this is what led to the focus on dreams? Perhaps through dreams Borges could recollect and create himself anew. He could become 'El hacedor' of the collections original title.

    The poetry is beautiful, the prose is magical, and overall this book is something, as I’ve found with every other Borges book, that I will come back to again and again over the years. In my personal opinion it is not the best collection of his work, as I’m a sucker for his slightly longer short stories, and I’m certainly no poetry expert, but it is definitely worth a read for anyone looking for a book to captivate and mystify them in a way that only Borges is capable of. A strong 4*.
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  • Cassandra
    4.0 out of 5 stars Half very good, half not there ...
    Reviewed in Canada on May 26, 2019
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    The collection had one of the Borges poems for which I wanted an English translation, a very good translation, but there was no translation of the second poem I was looking for.
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