Though best known in the English speaking world for his short fictions and poems, Borges is revered in Latin America equally as an immensely prolific and beguiling writer of non-fiction prose. In "The Total Library", more than 150 of Borges' most brilliant pieces are brought together for the first time in one volume - all in superb new translations. More than a hundred of the pieces have never previously been published in English. "The Total Library" presents Borges at once as a deceptively self-effacing guide to the universe and as the inventor of a universe that is an indispensible guide to Borges.
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Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) lived in Buenes Aires. His COLLECTED FICTIONS was published in Allen Lane in January 1999.
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I have this book under a different name,
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This review is from: The Total Library: Non-Fiction 1922-1986 (Penguin Modern Classics) (Paperback)
This appears to be the same book as "Jorge Luis Borges Selected Non-Fiction edited by Eliot Weinberger". Same translators, same table of contents, same first page of introduction. Different cover. I've got to say, this cover is much more exciting. "Selected Non-Fictions" has a classy but boring cover.
It's great. Go read the reviews of "Selected Non-Fictions" and see how everybody likes it.
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A wonderful collection of Borges' non-fiction,
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This is a wonderful collection of Borges' non-fiction. It is a marvelous book to read and ponder. The only thing I could have wished for is a larger print font. I find I have to read this one with a magnifying glass. I suppose I shouldn't complain because there is SO much material. I will give this 5 stars just for the wealth of good reading it has to offer.
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Buenos Aires, Martin Fierro, Bernard Shaw, Don Quixote, Edgar Allan Poe, Henry James, Holy Spirit, Chuang Tzu, Walt Whitman, Oscar Wilde, Jorge Luis Borges, New York, William James, Bret Harte, Middle Ages, Paul Valéry, United States, Bertrand Russell, Don Segundo Sombra, Franz Kafka, Mark Twain, David Hume, Encyclopedia Britannica, Francis Bacon, Lord Dunsany New!
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Buenos Aires, Martin Fierro, Bernard Shaw, Don Quixote, Edgar Allan Poe, Henry James, Holy Spirit, Chuang Tzu, Walt Whitman, Oscar Wilde, Jorge Luis Borges, New York, William James, Bret Harte, Middle Ages, Paul Valéry, United States, Bertrand Russell, Don Segundo Sombra, Franz Kafka, Mark Twain, David Hume, Encyclopedia Britannica, Francis Bacon, Lord Dunsany New!
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- Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing (The Empson Lectures) by Margaret Atwood on 5 pages
- The Mystery to a Solution: Poe, Borges, and the Analytic Detective Story by John T. Irwin on page 152, and page 294
- Illuminating Eco: On the Boundaries of Interpretation (Warwick Studies in the Humanities) by Charlotte Ross on page 22, and page 139
- After Beckett / D'apres Beckett (Samuel Beckett Today / Aujourd'hui 14) by Sjef Houppermans on page 144, and page 419
- Phantasmagoria: Spirit Visions, Metaphors, and Media into the Twenty-first Century by Marina Warner in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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