| Author | : Jorge Luis Borges |
| File Size | : 47,9 Mb |
| Publisher | : Unknown |
| Language | : English |
| Release Date | : 19 May 1975 |
| ISBN | : 0140180338 |
| Pages | : 136 pages |
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Get BookFrom 1933 to 1934, Jorge Luis Borges, the master of fiction whose work would change the literary world, published a series of "falsifications and distortions" in the Buenos Aires newspaper Critica. These "falsifications" used as their starting point the lives of real villains and desperados. Borges then elaborated using all of the
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Get BookA History of Infamy explores the broken nexus between crime, justice, and truth in mid-twentieth-century Mexico. Faced with the violence and impunity that defined politics, policing, and the judicial system in post-revolutionary times, Mexicans sought truth and justice outside state institutions. During this period, criminal news and crime fiction flourished.
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