Borges (Magill Book Reviews)
At a glance:
- Author: James Woodall
- First Published: 1996
- Type of Work: Biography
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Politics, Authors or writers, Blindness or blind persons, Poetry or poets, Publishing or publishers, Argentina or Argentineans
- Locales: Europe, United States, Argentina
James Woodall’s biography of Jorge Luis Borges, an Argentine writer who has been widely acclaimed as one of the twentieth century’s greatest and most influential authors, was first published in England in 1996 as THE MAN IN THE MIRROR OF THE BOOK, a title which reflects the book’s unresolved dilemma of how to write the life story of a man whose writing is far more fascinating than the mundane details of his relatively uneventful personal history. Woodall’s extensive chronological account provides a great deal of factual information, and he has interviewed a number of Borges’...
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