Everything and Nothing
A pocket-sized Pearls edition of some of Borges’ best fictions and essays.Everything and Nothing collects the best of Borges’ highly influential work—written in the 1930s and ‘40s—that foresaw the internet (“Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius”), quantum mechanics (“The Garden of Forking Paths”), and...
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A pocket-sized Pearls edition of some of Borges’ best fictions and essays.Everything and Nothing collects the best of Borges’ highly influential work—written in the 1930s and ‘40s—that foresaw the internet (“Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius”), quantum mechanics (“The Garden of Forking Paths”), and cloning (“Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote”). David Foster Wallace described Borges as “scalp-crinkling . . . Borges’ work is designed primarily as metaphysical arguments...to transcend individual consciousness.”
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780811218832 (081121883X)
Publish date: 2010-05-25
Publisher: New Directions
Pages no: 129
Edition language: English
Only read a couple stories for class, but I really enjoyed them.
Borges. Borges and Joyce*. Borges, Joyce, Pynchon…and Wallace, and Proust, and on… and on… and on. All authors woefully underrepresented on my Read list. With Everything and Nothing, I’ve made a modest stab at correcting that sorry condition and, in the process, have been dazzled by Borges’ short st...
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