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Penguin Books
Language
English
Pages
192

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Subjects
Translations into English, Literature, Knowledge, Literature, history and criticism
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Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986)

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Table of Contents

Becoming a man of letters; ultra manifesto; on expressionism; after images; Joyce's Ulysses; the ballad of reading Gaol
Word music; verbiage for poems; an investigation of the word; the art of verbal abuse; on literary description; on metaphor; Walt Whitman, Leaves of grass (prologue)
On translation; two ways to translate; the Homeric versions
Reading as writing; a profession of literary faith; literary pleasure; the superstitious ethics of the reader; the paradox of apollinaire; Kafka and his precursors; Flaubert and his exemplary destiny
The critic at work; Virginia Woolf (capsule biography); T. S. Eliot (capsule biography); Paul Valery (capsule biography); William Faulkner, Absalom! absalom!; Herman Mellville, Bartleby the scrivener; Henry James, The abasement of the Northmores; Marcel Schwob, imaginary lives; H. G. Wells, The time machine; The invisible man (prologue); Julio Cortazar, stories (prologue)
The perfect plot; the labyrinths of the detective story and Chesterton Ellery Queen, The halfway house; Adolfo Bioy Casares, The invention of morel (prologue)
Wilkie Collins, The moonstone; the detective story
Narrative art; stories from Turkestan; the cinematograph, the biograph; narrative art and magic; preface to a universal history of infamy; when fiction lives in fiction.

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Includes selections from Selected non-fictions (Penguin, 1999), plus ten new translations.

Includes bibliographical references.

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Penguin classics
Genre
Translations into English

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864/.62
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PQ7797.B635 A22 2010, PQ7797.B635A22 2010

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Number of pages
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2010011189
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468975304

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