- Softcover
- Used
Seller: LA BookWorks, West Vancouver, BC, CanadaLA BookWorks
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Condition: Used - Near fine
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Born in Buenos Aires, Jorge Borges (1899-1986) was educated in Europe and returned to Buenos Aires in 1921, where he co-founded several avant-garde literary periodicals. In 1955, after the fall of Juan Peron, whom he vigorously opposed, he was appointed director of the Argentine National Library. With Samuel Beckett he was awarded the 1961 International Publishers Prize, which helped to establish him as one of the most prominent writers in the world. Borges regularly taught and lectured throughout the United States and Europe. His ideas have been a profound influence on writers throughout the Western world and on literary and critical theory. A prolific writer of essays, short stories, and plays, Borges regarded people's endeavors to understand an incomprehensible world as fiction; hence, his fiction is metaphysical and based on what he called 'an esthetics of the intellect'. Some critics have called him 'a mystic'. This collection was published before Borges died, so it contains what he thought were among his best pieces. It also contains pieces never before translated into English. 368 pages, 6" x 9 1/2" It has not been read but the original owner signed the front endpaper. Aside from that, and a production crease at the top of the spine, it's in perfect condition.…
Seller Inventory # ABE-1753804348144
- Title
- BORGES, A READER
- Author
- Jorge Borges
- Publisher
- E.P. Dutton, New York
- Publication year
- 1981
- Condition
- Near fine
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0525476547
- ISBN 13
- 9780525476542
- Seller catalogs
- Central & South America, Essays Journalism & Opinion, Short Stories & Collections
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LA BookWorks
West Vancouver, BC, Canada
AbeBooks seller since June 23, 2025
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