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Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 43,47 MB
Release : 1986-09-23
Category : Education
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Author : Daniel Balderston
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Page : 305 pages
File Size : 38,13 MB
Release : 1986
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Author : Jorge Luis Borges
Publisher : New York : Dutton
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 48,51 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Fiction
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This book includes 118 earlier pieces never before translated, and moves through his more fantastic work to a later realism
Author : Jorge Luis Borges
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Page : 184 pages
File Size : 49,38 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
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In 1971 Borges was invited to talk about his writing to students enrolled in the graduate writing program at Columbia University. This book is based on tape-recorded transcripts of these informal discussions between Borges, translator Norman Thomas di Giovanni, Frank MacShane, head of the creative writing department at Columbia, and the students. The three seminars deal with prose, poetry, and translation. In each Borges, in discussing his methods, refers to specific examples in his writing -- the use of local color and irony in his prose, autobiographical details in his poetry, testing and experiment in translation. The result is a rare and fruitful glimpse at how today's supreme verbal craftsman solves the age-old problems of the writer. -- From publisher's description.
Author : Jorge Luis Borges
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 43,77 MB
Release : 2000-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0140290117
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.
Author : Richard Burgin
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Page : 168 pages
File Size : 50,77 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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Author : Jorge Luis Borges
Publisher :
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 10,86 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Fiction
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Contains over 40 black and white photos of books with excerpts from the writings of Jorge Luis Borges.
Author : Jorge Luis Borges
Publisher : Bloomington : Indiana University Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 47,23 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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Author : Jorge Luis Borges
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 30,49 MB
Release : 2002-03-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0674008200
Transcribed from recently discovered tapes, this work stands as a deeply personal yet far-reaching introduction to the pleasures of the word, and as a first-hand testimony to the life of literature. 1 halftone.
Author : Jorge Luis Borges
Publisher : Troy, N.Y. : Whitston Publishing Company
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 32,62 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Literary Criticism
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