Selected Non-Fictions (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Jorge Luis Borges
- First Published: 1999
- Type of Work: Essays, literary criticism, literary history, and philosophy
- Time of Work: 1922-1986
- Genres: Nonfiction, Essays
- Subjects: Language or languages, Twentieth century, Self, Authors or writers, Blindness or blind persons, Literature, Metaphysics, Mysticism, Filmmaking or filmmakers, South America or South Americans, Fascism, Gnosticism
This unusual selection is actually the first comprehensive selection of Borges’s nonfiction in any language. More than a hundred of these writings have never before appeared in English. Readers who know the earlier anthology in English, Borges: A Reader (1981), will recognize Borges on authors Herman Melville and Walt Whitman, but they may be surprised to read his thoughts on Ray Bradbury, Lady Murasaki, and Bret Harte, or, for that matter, King Kong (1933) and Citizen Kane (1941).
Part 1, “Early Writings,” contains material from the 1920’s taken from...
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