El libro de arena

Written in the twilight of his life and published in 1975, El libro de arena is an essential work by Borges, one of the most influential Latin American authors of the 20th century, winner of the Cervantes Prize and the National Prize for Literature. Thirteen masterful pieces -most of the fantastic genre- that investigate his great themes and obsessions. In "El otro", Borges himself meets his alter ego. "Ulrica" -his only love story of him- tells the story of an apparently ephemeral crush. "El Congreso" describes an enterprise so vast that it is confused with the cosmos. "Undr" and "El espejo y la máscara" imagine literatures consisting of a single word. "El libro de arena", on the other hand, focuses on a volume of incalculable pages, monstrous, that nests in the National Library of Buenos Aires: without beginning or end, infinite and eternal like all Borges' work.