Authors:Jorge Luis Borges, Eliot Weinberger,
Publisher: Penguin
Keywords: fictions, non, selected, borges
Number of Pages: 560
Published: 2000-11-01
List price: $22.00
ISBN-10: 0140290117
ISBN-13: 9780140290110
This unique volume presents a Borges almost entirely unknown to American readers: his extraordinary non--fiction prose. Borges’ unlimited curiosity and almost superhuman erudition become, in his essays, reviews, lectures, and political and cultural notes, a vortex for seemingly the entire universe: Dante and Ellery Queen; Shakespeare and the Kabbalah; the history of angels and the history of the tango; the Buddha, Bette Davis, and the Dionne Quints. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism Chosen International Book of the Year by George Steiner in the Times Literary
Authors:Jorge Luis Borges, Alexander Coleman,
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Keywords: poems, selected, borges
Number of Pages: 496
Published: 2000-04-01
List price: $21.00
ISBN-10: 0140587217
ISBN-13: 9780140587210
An unparalleled and long-overdue volume of poetry by "the most important Spanish writer since Cervantes"(Mario Vargas Llosa). Though universally acclaimed for his dazzling fictions, Jorge Luis Borges always considered himself first and foremost a poet. This new bilingual selection brings together some two hundred poems--the largest collection of Borges’ poetry ever assembled in English, including scores of poems never previously translated. Edited by Alexander Coleman, the selection draws from a lifetime’s work--from Borges’ first published volume of verse, Fervor de Buenos A
Authors:Jorge Luis Borges, Jorge Borges, James E. Irby,
Publisher: New Directions
Keywords: amp, everything
Number of Pages: 108
Published: 1999-04-01
List price: $9.95
ISBN-10: 0811214001
ISBN-13: 9780811214001
Fiction. Translated by Donald Yates, James Irby, John Fein, and Eliot Weinburger, and with an h an introduction by Donald Yates, Everything and Nothing celebrates the centennial of Borges’ birth by compiling his finest fiction.
Author: Alberto Manguel
Publisher: Telegram Books
Keywords: borges
Number of Pages: 77
Published: 2006-10-01
List price: $11.95
ISBN-10: 1846590051
ISBN-13: 9781846590054
“This delightful book provides readers a key to more than one secret room of Borges’s magical worlds.”—Mahmoud Darwish “Alberto Manguel is to reading what Casanova was to sex.”—Scotland on Sunday“His stories about Borges . . . [are] wrapped in luminous poetry.”—The Toronto StarWinner of the 2003 Prix du livre en Poitou-Charentes. In 1964, in Buenos Aires, a blind writer in his sixties approached a sixteen-year-old bookstore clerk and asked if he would be interested in a part-time job reading aloud. The writer was Jorge Luis Borges, one of the world’s finest literary mi
Author: Jorge Luis Borges
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Keywords: nights, seven
Number of Pages: 121
Published: 1984-10
List price: $9.95
ISBN-10: 0811209059
ISBN-13: 9780811209052
The incomparable Borges delivered these seven lectures in Buenos Aires in 1977; attendees were treated to Borges’ erudition on the following topics: Dante’s The Divine Comedy, Nightmares, Thousand and One Dreams, Buddhism, Poetry, The Kabbalah, and Blindness.
Author: BORGES JORGE LUIS
Publisher: FELTRINELLI
Keywords: aleph
Number of Pages: 180
Published: 2008
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 8807803348
ISBN-13: 9788807803345
Author: Jorge Luis Borges
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Keywords: fictions, collected
Number of Pages: 576
Published: 1999-09-01
List price: $21.00
ISBN-10: 0140286802
ISBN-13: 9780140286809
The New York Times bestseller, "a marvelous new collection of stories by . . . one of the most remarkable writers of our century" --Richard Bernstein, The New York TimesJorge Luis Borges has been called the greatest Spanish-language writer of our century. Now for the first time in English, all of Borges’ dazzling fictions are gathered into a single volume, brilliantly translated by Andrew Hurley. From his 1935 debut with The Universal History of Iniquity, through his immensely influential collections Ficciones and The Aleph, these enigmatic, elaborate, imaginative inventions display Borg
