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Selected Non-Fictions

Paperback • 2000 • English

Selected Non-Fictions

By Jorge Luis Borges

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About the book

This unique volume presents a Borges almost entirely unknown to American readers: his extraordinary non--fiction prose. Borges' unlimited curiosity and almost superhuman erudition become, in his essays, reviews, lectures, and political and cultural notes, a vortex for seemingly the entire universe: Dante and Ellery Queen; Shakespeare and the Kabbalah; the history of angels and the history of the tango; the Buddha, Bette Davis, and the Dionne Quints. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Aw...Show more

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ISBN

9780140290110

Publisher

Penguin Books Australia

Published year

2000

Language

English

Original title

Selected Non-Fictions

Format

Paperback

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