Borges: Selected Non-Fictions

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9780140290110
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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0140290117
ISBN-13
9780140290110
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1756533

Product Key Features

Book Title
Selected Non-Fictions
Number of Pages
576 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2000
Topic
Caribbean & Latin American, Literary, Essays
Genre
Literary Criticism, Biography & Autobiography, Literary Collections
Author
Jorge Luis Borges
Format
Uk-B Format Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
2 in
Item Weight
21.8 Oz
Item Length
8.4 in
Item Width
5.6 in

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Reviews
"Dizzying in scope and dazzling in execution ... Should throw even the most dedicated Borges fan for a loop." -- The New Yorker "Intelligently selected and magically translated ... Borges's uniqueness in 20th-century letters is rooted in an almost monstrous combination: encyclopedic knowledge, razorlike critical judgment and a ravishing appreciation for the magical and pagan dimension in every situation." --Richard Bernstein, The New York Times "A remarkable achievement, offering the general reader and Borges aficianados alike a rapturous glimpse into one of literature's most fertile and original minds." --Andrew Roe, San Francisco Sunday Examiner & Chronicle "Sheer delight ... witty and elaborate, in turn intimate and magisterial ... his is the literature of eternity." --Peter Ackroyd, The (London) Times "A cornucopia of wit, wisdom and critical insights." --George Steiner, Times Literary Supplement, "Dizzying in scope and dazzling in execution … Should throw even the most dedicated Borges fan for a loop." — The New Yorker "Intelligently selected and magically translated … Borges''s uniqueness in 20th-century letters is rooted in an almost monstrous combination: encyclopedic knowledge, razorlike critical judgment and a ravishing appreciation for the magical and pagan dimension in every situation." —Richard Bernstein, The New York Times "A remarkable achievement, offering the general reader and Borges aficianados alike a rapturous glimpse into one of literature''s most fertile and original minds." —Andrew Roe, San Francisco Sunday Examiner & Chronicle "Sheer delight … witty and elaborate, in turn intimate and magisterial … his is the literature of eternity." —Peter Ackroyd, The (London) Times "A cornucopia of wit, wisdom and critical insights." —George Steiner, Times Literary Supplement, "Dizzying in scope and dazzling in execution … Should throw even the most dedicated Borges fan for a loop." — The New Yorker "Intelligently selected and magically translated … Borges's uniqueness in 20th-century letters is rooted in an almost monstrous combination: encyclopedic knowledge, razorlike critical judgment and a ravishing appreciation for the magical and pagan dimension in every situation." —Richard Bernstein, The New York Times "A remarkable achievement, offering the general reader and Borges aficianados alike a rapturous glimpse into one of literature's most fertile and original minds." —Andrew Roe, San Francisco Sunday Examiner & Chronicle "Sheer delight … witty and elaborate, in turn intimate and magisterial … his is the literature of eternity." —Peter Ackroyd, The (London) Times "A cornucopia of wit, wisdom and critical insights." —George Steiner, Times Literary Supplement
Dewey Edition
21
Grade From
Twelfth Grade
Number of Volumes
3 vols.
Volume Number
Vol. 3
Dewey Decimal
864
Grade To
UP
Synopsis
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism It will come as a surprise to some readers that the greater part of Jorge Luis Borges's extraordinary writing was not in the genres of fiction or poetry, but in the various forms of non-fiction prose. His thousands of pages of essays, reviews, prologues, lectures, and notes on politics and culture--though revered in Latin America and Europe as among his finest work--have scarcely been translated into English., Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism The first comprehensive selection in any language of the non-fiction--much of it appearing here in English for the first time--of "one of literature's most fertile and original minds" ( San Francisco Chronicle ) A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition with flaps and deckle-edged paper It will come as a surprise to many readers that the greater part of Jorge Luis Borges's extraordinary writing was not in the genres of fiction or poetry, but in various forms of non-fiction prose. His thousands of pages of essays, reviews, prologues, lectures, and notes on politics and culture--though revered in Latin America and Europe as among his finest work--have scarcely been translated into English. Selected Non-Fictions presents a Borges almost entirely unknown to American readers. Here is the dazzling metaphysician speculating on the nature of time and reality and the inventions of heaven and hell, and the almost superhumanly erudite reader of the world's literatures, from Homer to Ray Bradbury, James Joyce to Lady Murasaki. Here, too, the political Borges, taking courageous stands against fascism, antisemitism, and the Perón dictatorship; Borges the movie critic, on King Kong and Citizen Kane and the Borgesian art of dubbing; and Borges the regular columnist for the Argentine equivalent of the Ladies' Home Journal , writing hilarious book reviews and capsule biographies of modern writers. Like the Aleph in his famous story--the magical point in a basement in Buenos Aires from which one can view everything in the world--Borges's non-fictions are a vortex for seemingly the entire universe: Dante and Ellery Queen, Shakespeare and the Kabbalah, the history of angels and the history of tango, the Buddha, Bette Davis, and the Dionne Quints. Selected Non-Fictions presents more than 160 of these astonishing writings, from his youthful manifestos to his last meditations on his favorite books. More than a hundred of these pieces have never before appeared in English, and all have been rendered in brilliant new translations by Esther Allen, Suzanne Jill Levine, and Eliot Weinberger. This unique selection presents Borges as at once a deceptively self-effacing guide to the universe and the inventor of a universe that is an indispensable guide to Borges. For more than seventy-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 2,000 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
LC Classification Number
PQ7297.P285

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