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| Genre/Form: | essays Essays Translations Essais Texts |
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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986. Selected non-fictions. New York : Viking, 1999 (OCoLC)659302006 |
| Named Person: | Jorge Luis Borges; Jorge Luis Borges |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Jorge Luis Borges; Eliot Weinberger |
| ISBN: | 0670849472 9780670849475 |
| OCLC Number: | 40660195 |
| Awards: | National Books Critics Circle Award for Criticism, 1999 |
| Description: | xvi, 559 pages ; 25 cm |
| Contents: | Part 1. Early writings 1922-1928. The nothingness of personality -- After images -- Joyce's Ulysses -- A history of angels -- Verbiage for poems -- A profession of literary faith -- Literary pleasure -- An investigation of the world -- Part 2. 1929-1936. The perpetual race of Achilles and the tortoise -- The duration of hell -- The superstitious ethics of the reader -- Our inabilities -- The postulation of reality -- A defense of Basilides the false -- The homeric versions -- Narrative art and magic -- A defense of the Kabbalah -- The art of verbal abuse -- The translators of The Thousand and One Nights -- I, a Jew -- The labyrinths of the detective story and Chesterton -- The doctrine of cycles -- A history of eternity -- Film reviews and criticism. The cinematograph, the biograph -- Films -- Street Scene -- King Kong -- The informer -- Two films (Crime and Punishment; The Thirty-nine steps) -- The Petrified Forest -- Wells, the visionary -- Part 3. Writings for El Hogar (home) magazine 1936-1939. Ramon Llull's thinking machine -- When fiction lives in fiction -- Capsule biographies. Isaac Babel -- Ernest Bramah -- Benedetto Croce -- Theodore Dreiser -- T.S. Eliot -- Will James -- Liam O'Flaherty -- Oswald Spengler -- Paul Valery -- S.S. Van Dine -- Virginia Woolf -- Book reviews and notes. Der Engel vom Westlichen Fenster / Gustav Meyrink -- Private Opinion / Alan Pryce-Jones -- The Pursuer / Louis Golding -- Lord Halifax's Ghost Book -- Absalom! Absalom! / William Faulkner -- Gubben Kommer / Gustaf Janson -- Essays and poems / Aldous Huxley -- Collected poems and plays / Rabindranath Tagore -- The Door Between / Ellery Queen -- Personality Survives Death / Sir William Barrett -- Chinese Fairy Tales and Folk Tales / Wolfram Eberhard, tr. -- The Literary Life: Marinetti -- Excellent Intentions / Richard Hull -- The Confessions of a Thug / Meadows Taylor -- The unvanquished / William Faulkner -- The tale of Genji / Lady Murasaki -- Patches of Sunlight / Lord Dunsany -- Two Fantasy Novels -- The Literary Life: Oliver Gogarty -- An English version of the oldest songs in the world -- Of Course, Vitelli! / Alan Griffiths -- A Grandiose Manifesto from Brenton -- H.G. Wells' Latest Novel -- Delphos, or the future of international language / E.S. Pankhurst -- Joyce's latest novel -- The Literary Life: The Dionne Quints -- Part 4. 1937-1945. Notes on Germany and the war. A pedagogy of hatred -- A disturbing exposition -- An essay on neutrality -- Definition of a Germanophile -- 1941 -- Two books -- A comment on August 23, 1944 -- A note on the peace -- The total library -- Time and J.W. Dunne -- A fragment on Joyce -- The creation and P.H. Gosse -- Circular time -- John Wilkins' analytical language -- On literary description -- On William Beckford's Vathek -- Coleridge's flower -- Prolouges. The Invention of Morel / Adolfo Bioy Casares -- Bartleby the Scrivener / Herman Melville -- The abasement of the Northmores / Henry James -- Book reviews. Mathematics and the imagination / Edward Kasner and James Newman -- Rudyard Kipling: a study in literature and poltical ideas / Edward Shanks -- Monkey / Arthur Waley -- After death / Leslie Weatherhead -- Film reviews and criticism. Two films (Sabotage; Los Muchachos de Antes) -- An overwhelming film (Citizen Kane) -- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, transformed -- Two films (Now Voyager; Nightmare) -- On dubbing -- Pat 5. Nine Dantesque essays 1945-195. Prolouge -- The noble castle of the fourth canto -- The false problem of Ugolino -- The last voyage of Ulysses -- The pitying torturer -- Dante and the Anglo-Saxon visionaries -- Purgatorio I,13 -- The simurgh and the eagle -- The meeting in a dream -- Beatrice's last smile -- Part 6. 1946-1955. Our poor individualism -- The paradox of Apollinaire -- On Oscar Wilde -- A new refutation of time -- Biathanatos -- From allegories to novels -- From someone to nobody -- The wall and the books -- Personality and the Buddha -- Pascal's sphere -- The innocence of Layamon -- On the cult of the books -- Kafka and his precursors -- The enigma of Edward FitzGerald -- Coleridge's dream -- Forms of a legend -- The Scandinavian destiny -- The dialouges of Ascetic and King -- A defense of Bouvard and Pecuchet -- Flaubert and his exemplary destiny -- A history of the tango -- A history of the echoes of a name -- L'illusion comique -- Prolouges. The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Sketches / Bret Harte -- On heroes, hero-worship and the heroic in history / Thomas Carlyle -- Representative men / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- The Martian Chronicles / Ray Bradbury -- Lectures. The Argentine writer and tradition -- German literature in the age of Bach -- Part 7. Dictations 1956-1986. Prolouges. The Kappa / Ryunosuke Akutagawa -- Pages of history and autobiography / Edward Gibbon -- Books from Spain / Catalog of the exhibition -- Leaves of grass / Walt Whitman -- Mystical works / Emanuel Swedenborg -- Lectures. The concept of an academy and the Celts -- The enigma of Shakespeare -- Blindness -- Immortality -- The detective story -- Prolouges to The Library of Babel. The Library of Babel -- The Vulture / Franz Kafka -- The Concentric Deaths / Jack London -- The Guest at the Last Banquets / Villiers de l'Isle-Adam -- The Tiger Guest / P'u Sung-ling -- Scientific Romances / Charles Howard Hinton -- Prolouges to A Personal Library. A Personal Library -- Prolouge to the collection -- Stories / Julio Cortazar -- The apocryphal gospels -- The time machine; the invisible man / H.G. Wells -- Demons / Fyodor Dostoevsky -- The theory of the leisure class / Thorstein Veblen -- Fear and trembling / Soren Kierkegaard -- The aeneid / Virgil -- Varieties of religious experience; the study of human nature / William James. |
| Other Titles: | Essays. |
| Responsibility: | Jorge Luis Borges ; edited by Eliot Weinberger ; translated by Esther Allen, Suzanne Jill Levine & Eliot Weinberger. |
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Abstract:
A collection of writings includes essays, literary and film criticism, biographical sketches, and lectures.
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