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Now for the first time in English comes Borges's literary guide to his native--and beloved--Argentina and Buenos Aires, 128 pp.

On Mysticism, " available in English for the first time, brings together the meditations on the mystical realm that permeate much of Borges's work.

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Transcribed from recently discovered tapes, this work stands as a deeply personal yet far-reaching introduction to the pleasures of the word, and as a first-hand testimony to the life of literature. 1 halftone.

Borges reveals his delight in sharing colorful stories from the Orient, the Islamic world, and the Wild West, as well as his horrified fascination with knife fights, political and personal betrayal, and bloodthirsty revenge.

This remarkable book by one of the great writers of our time includes essays on a proposed universal language, a justification of suicide, a refutation of time, the nature of dreams, and the intricacies of linguistic forms. Borges comments on such literary figures as Pascal, Coleridge, Cervantes, Hawthorne, Whitman, Valery, Wilde, Shaw, and Kafka. With extraordinary grace and erudition, he ranges in time, place, and subject from Omar Khayyam t...

Stories deal with an unusual garden, an enormous library, authorship, language, memory, philosophy, and the art of writing.

Band 2 der Werkausgabe vereint die berühmten Essaybände Borges': die Geschichte der Ewigkeit und Von Büchern und Autoren. Versammelt sind hier die bedeutenden poetologischen Texte über Die Metapher oder Die Übersetzer von Tausendundeiner Nacht und sein umfangreicher Kalalog der größten Werke der Weltliteratur.