Antología de la literatura fantástica
| Author | Anthology. Edited by Jorge Luis Borges, Adolfo Bioy Casares, and Silvina Ocampo |
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| Original title |
Antologìa de la Literatura Fantàstica |
| Translator | None |
| Illustrator | Penguin edition design by Richard Glyn Jones |
| Country | Buenos Aires, Argentina; Great Britain |
| Language | English & Spanish |
| Series | Colección Laberinto |
| Subject | Short stories and verse |
| Genre | Fantasy |
| Publisher | Editorial Sudamericana; Viking Penguin Inc.; Xanadu Publications Limited |
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Publication date
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1940 |
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Published in English
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December 1988 |
| Media type | Hardcover |
| Pages | 328 (1940); 384 (1988) |
| ISBN | (Penguin edition) |
| OCLC | 17803482 |
| 808.83/876 19 | |
| LC Class | PN6071.F25 A5513 1988 |
Antologìa de la Literatura
The Book of Fantasy is the second English translation of Antología de la Literatura Fantástica, an anthology of appromixately 81 fantastic short stories, fragments, excerpts, and poems edited by Jorge Luis Borges, Adolfo Bioy Casares, and Silvina Ocampo. It was first published in Argentina in 1940, and revised in 1965 and 1976. Anthony Kerrigan previously translated the similar work Cuentos Breves y Extraordinarios as Extraordinary Tales, published by Herder & Herder in 1971. The 1988 Viking Penguin edition for English-speaking countries includes a foreword by Ursula K. Le Guin.
The idea and seed for this volume came into being one "night in 1937 in Buenos Aires, when Jorge Luis Borges, Adolfo Bioy Casares, and Silvina Ocampo fell to talking - so Casares tells us - 'about fantastic literature. ..simply a compilation of stories from fantastic literature which seemed to us to be the best.'"
Pagination is given per the Penguin edition.
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