It will come as a surprise to some readers that the greater part of
Jorge Luis Borges's extraordinary writing was not in the genres of
fiction or poetry, but in the 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, 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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