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Ronald Christ (Author), Jorge Luis Borges (Preface)
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Ronald Christ won the Kayden National Translation Award for Diamela Eltit's "E. Luminata" and the ForeWord Book of the Year Award for Altamirano's "El Zarco, The Blue-eyed Bandit." Currently translating Álvaro Pombo's "Contra Natura" under a grant from the Spanish Ministry of Cutlure, Christ's most recent critical work is "Bonevardi: Constructing Magic."

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  • Paperback: 240 pages
  • Publisher: Lumen Books; Rev Sub edition (January 1, 1995)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0930829344
  • ISBN-13: 978-0930829346
  • Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.3 x 1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 stars A poetry of essential metaphor - the art of Borges Literature, May 9, 2006
This review is from: The Narrow Act: Borges' Art of Allusion (Paperback)
This study was the first book- length one of Borges work in English. It was highly commended by Borges himself.
The author goes to the roots of Borges creative process, traces his aesthetic from his early days as poet and linguistic theorist through his creation of the 'Ficciones' for which he is most well- known.
At the heart of the Borges' doctrine is an idea of poetic concision, of creating works of essential metaphor without embellishments and decorations. The ideal of Borges is that the work should be stripped clear of verbiage and vagueness. The elaboration of this aesthetic leads to a discussion of how Borges' transformed his original ideas in time into great works of Literature.
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5.0 out of 5 stars the mysterious mr.borges, January 5, 2007
This review is from: The Narrow Act: Borges' Art of Allusion (Paperback)
dr.christ has written the single best explication of borges i have come across to date .he is a fine scholar whose style is accessible to all readers.borges is not an easy writer to comprehend,but after reading christ's book i understand him far better than before.i highly recommendTHE NARROW ACT.DR.JAMES F.MULLAN
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Coming upon a story by Borges in an anthology or in a magazine, or merely picking up one of his collections and reading a single story, the reader is likely to be puzzled; perhaps fascinated or irritated, but almost certainly puzzled. Read the first page
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orbis tertius, circular time, forking paths
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Buenos Aires, New York, Pierre Menard, Father Brown, Sir Thomas Browne, The Waste Land, Bioy Casares, Herbert Quain, Jorge Luis Borges, Old English, Evaristo Carriego, New Refutation of Time, Ana Marķa Barrenechea, Old Norse, Oscar Wilde, Complete Essays, Don Quixote, History of Eternity, Mark Twain, Pink Corner, Tom Castro, Ben Jonson, Coat of Many Colours, James Irby, Lord Jim
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