Everything and Nothing (New Directions Bibelot) - Softcover

Borges, Jorge Luis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0811214001 ISBN 13: 9780811214001

Publisher: New Directions Publishing, 1999

Synopsis

Celebrating the centennial of his birth, Everything and Nothing compiles the most anthologized and widely read fictions by Jorge Luis Borges, "a giant of world literature" (John Updike, The New Yorker). Some of the narrative pieces herein contained are: "Pierre Menard" in which a modern writer reconstructs passages from Don Quixote that are verbally identical but read differently; "The Garden of Forking Paths," an intellectual variation on the detective-story genre; and "Nightmares," a lecture which, as Alastair Reid puts it, "shifts from personal memories to writers, to an examination of other peoples' metaphors, to language itself." Everything and Nothing serves as a perfect introduction to Borges's genius.

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Review:

Some of the most witty, uncannily original short fiction in Western Literature.

As Carlos Fuentes remarked, without Borges, the modern Latin American novel simply would not exist.--Gene H. Bell

Like the great artists of other centuries, he engages the heart as well as the intelligence; his genius strikes, undismayed as Theseus, through the labyrinths of our life and time to the accomplishment of new, inspiring and stunningly beautiful work.--John Barth

Synopsis:

A celebration of the work of Jorge Luis Borges. Some of the narrative pieces contained are: "Pierre Menard"; "The Garden of Forking Paths", a variation on the detective story genre; and a lecture entitled "Nightmares".

About this edition

• Publisher: New Directions Publishing
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0811214001
• ISBN 13: 9780811214001
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128