The Book of Fantasy -

Silvina Ocampo, Adolfo Bioy Casares

Carroll & Graf Pub

1990

384 páginas

12h 48m

ISBN-10: 0881846562

Originally conceived of by its Argentinian editors in 1937, and now published in English for the first time, this unusual and provocative volume is an omnibus collection. In addition to stories by Ballard, Poe, Saki, Max Beerbohm, Ray Bradbury, May Sinclair, de Maupassant and Julio Cortazar, there are shorter pieces, anecdotes, folkloric fragments, dreamlike moments. Most of the 79 selections are only a paragraph or two long, giving us brief passage into magical visions of the world culled from the work of an international array of authors of the past three centuries, including less well-known authors such as Santiago Dabove, Edwin Morgan and Niu Chiao. The keynote tale may well be Borges's own "Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" in which an imaginary world, conjured up by manufactured documentation, ends up eroding our reality: reality is malleable, and imagination necessarily subverts and alters it. Introduction by Ursula K. LeGuin.

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Um belo dia, Jorge Luis Borges, Adolfo Bioy Casares e Silvina Ocampo conversavam sobre suas histórias preferidas e resolveram reuni-las num só volume. “The book of fantasy” (Carroll & Graf, 1990) é a tradução inglesa para a terceira edição da “Antología de la literatura fantástica”, aquela mesma mencionada por Borges no pós-escrito de seu conto “Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius”. Mistura alguns clássicos (“A pata do macaco”, “A casa tomada”) com histórias menos conhecidas de autores consagrados (Kafka, Hawthorne) e um punhado de garimpagens. No total, e relevando-se as idiossincrasias dos editores, uma ótima panorâmica do que se pode chamar de literatura fantástica desde Petrônio até o século XX.

(Publicado originalmente no Almanaque - http://almanaque.wordpress.com/2013/03/04/meninos-eu-li-32/)