| Description |
xvi, 167 pages ; 20 cm. |
| Series |
Penguin classics
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Penguin classics.
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| Note |
Includes selections from Selected non-fictions (Penguin, 1999), plus ten new translations. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Ultra manifesto -- On expressionism -- After images -- The ballad Reading Gaol -- Verbiage for poems -- An investigation of the word -- The art of verbal abuse -- On literary description -- On metaphor -- Walt Whitman, Leaves of grass -- Two ways to translate -- The Homeric versions -- 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 -- Virginia Woolf -- T. S. Eliot -- Paul Valery -- 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 -- Julio Cortazar, storories -- The labyrinths of the detective story and Chesterton -- Ellery Queen, Halfway house -- Adolfo Bioy Casares, The invention of morel -- Wilkie Collins, The moonstone -- The detective story -- Stories from Turkestan -- The cinematograph, the Biograph -- Narrative art and magic -- Preface to the 1954 edition of A universal history of infamy -- When fiction lives in fiction. |
| Subject |
Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986 -- Translations into English.
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Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986. |
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Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986 -- Knowledge and learning -- Literature.
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Literature. |
| Added Author |
Levine, Suzanne Jill.
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| Added Title |
Essays. Selections. English https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n99003795
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| ISBN |
9780143105725 paperback |
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0143105728 paperback |
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