A Personal Anthology
After almost a half a century of scrupulous devotion to his art, Jorge Luis Borges personally compiled this anthology of his workshort stories, essays, poems, and brief mordant sketches,” which, in Borges’s hands, take on the dimensions of a genre unique in modern letters.
After almost a half a century of scrupulous devotion to his art, Jorge Luis Borges personally compiled this anthology of his workshort stories, essays, poems, and brief mordant sketches,” which, in Borges’s hands, take on the dimensions of a genre unique in modern letters.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780802130778 (0802130771)
Publish date: January 14th 1994
Publisher: Grove Press
Pages no: 224
Edition language: English
A collection, edited and arranged by the author, of his favorite writings. It's described as being for a "reader who seeks a representative sampling of the great writer" and a "standard introduction to Borges in [English]."I'd agree - there's a good mix here of short stories, essays and poetry. Some...