Inquisiciones

6 best books like Inquisiciones (Jorge Luis Borges): Sostiene Pereira, The Invention of Morel, Heretics, German Ideology, Why Write?, El matadero / La cautiva

Sostiene Pereira

Author	Antonio Tabucchi
ISBN	8433966324

Lisboa, 1938. En una Europa recorrida por el fantasma de los totalitarismos, Pereira, un periodista dedicado durante toda su vida a la sección de sucesos, recibe el encargo de dirigir la página cultural de un mediocre periódico. Pereira tiene un sentido un tanto fúnebre de la cultura y prefiere...

The Invention of Morel

Author	Adolfo Bioy Casares
ISBN	1590170571

Jorge Luis Borges declared The Invention of Morel a masterpiece of plotting, comparable to The Turn of the Screw and Journey to the Center of the Earth. This fantastic exploration of realities also bears comparison with the sharpest work of Philip K. Dick. It is both a story of suspense and a bizarre romance,...

Heretics

Author	G.K. Chesterton
ISBN	0486449149

G. K. Chesterton, the "Prince of Paradox," is at his witty best in this collection of twenty essays and articles from the turn of the twentieth century. Focusing on "heretics" — those who pride themselves on their superiority to Christian views — Chesterton appraises prominent figures who fall...

German Ideology

Author	Karl Marx
ISBN	0717803015

2011 Reprint of 1939 Edition. Parts I & III of "The German Ideology". Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Originally published by the Marx-Engels Institute in Moscow in 1939. "The German Ideology" was written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels...

Why Write?

Author	Paul Auster
ISBN	1886224145

There is an essay at the end of Joy Williams' book 'Ill Nature' that I believe is called 'Why I Write'. Some of these short essays in Paul Auster's 'Why Write' remind me of that Joy Williams' piece. Both are well worth the read.

While there is a place for books like Strunk and White in the writer's...

El matadero / La cautiva

Author	Esteban Echeverría
ISBN	9583001023

La acción de El matadero se sitúa en la década de 1830, durante la dictadura de Juan Manuel Rosas en Argentina y ha de entenderse la concepción y el objetivo primero de este texto como un ataque al dictador. En la primera parte, se describe el funcionamiento de un matadero de reses con una sucesión...