by José Ferrater Mora · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422636786
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«Mujeres al borde de la leyenda» is the short story collection by José Ferrater Mora, published by Círculo de Lectores in 1991 in hardcover (263 pages, in Spanish).
The volume brings together short narratives in which the Catalan philosopher and writer approaches female figures turned into myth or legend. The stories combine reflection, erudition and a touch of irony, and the book closes with an appendix by Priscilla Cohn that includes Ferrater Mora's posthumous text titled «Reivindicación de Babel».
Work in Spanish, published in 1991 by Círculo de Lectores. The hardcover edition has 263 pages, with an author's prologue and an epilogue by Priscilla Cohn.
For readers interested in twentieth-century short fiction and in the work of José Ferrater Mora, better known for his philosophical side.
José María Ferrater Mora was a Spanish philosopher, essayist and writer. He is considered the most prominent Catalan philosopher of the 20th-century and was the author of over 35 books, including a four-volume Diccionario de filosofía and Being and Death: An Outline of Integrationist Philosophy (1962). Subjects he worked on include ontology, history of philosophy, metaphysics, anthropology, the philosophy of history and culture, epistemology, logic, philosophy of science, and ethics. He also directed several films.
