Selected Non-Fictions Paperback - 2000
by Jorge Luis Borges; Eliot Weinberger (Editor); Esther Allen (Translator)
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.
Summary
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, anti-Semitism, and the Peron dictatorship; Borges the moive 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.
The first comprehensive selection of this work in any language, Selected Non-Fiction presents over 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, the third and final volume in Penguin's centenary edition of the Collected Work in English, presents Borges as at once a deceptively self-effacing guide to the universe and the inventor of a universe that is an idispensable guide to Borges.
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- Title Selected Non-Fictions
- Author Jorge Luis Borges; Eliot Weinberger (Editor); Esther Allen (Translator)
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Pages 576
- Volumes 3
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Books, New York
- Date 2000-11-01
- ISBN 9780140290110 / 0140290117
- Weight 1.35 lbs (0.61 kg)
- Dimensions 8.3 x 5.6 x 1.6 in (21.08 x 14.22 x 4.06 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects Borges, Jorge Luis
- Dewey Decimal Code 864
Media reviews
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
Citations
- New York Times, 02/25/2001, Page 28
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