Borges A Life

Author : Edwin Williamson
Publisher : Viking Adult
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114333615

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Borges, a Life by Edwin Williamson Pdf

Short story writer, essayist, and poet Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) revolutionized the literature of Latin America almost single-handedly and left a legion of readers and admirers worldwide.Based on an unprecedented range of interviews and on research into previously unknown or unavailable resources, this is the first biography in any language to encompass the entire span of Borges’s life and work. In Borges, Edwin Williamson brings to life the little known human side of the writer: his ancestral roots in Argentina, his relations with family and friends, his passions and despairs, and the evolution of his political ideas. By correlating this new biographical information with Borges’s literary texts, Williamson also reconstructs the dynamics of his inner world—the conflicts, desires, and obsessions that drove the man and shaped his work. This major new study finally unlocks the mysteries that have obscured the life of Borges. The result is a compelling and often poignant portrait that will radically transform our views of this modern master.

Author : James Woodall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1996-01
Category : Argentine literature
ISBN : 0340672269

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The Man in the Mirror of the Book by James Woodall Pdf

Author : Jason Wilson
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2006-10-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1861892861

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Jorge Luis Borges by Jason Wilson Pdf

"The face of Borges most widely known is that of the blind, patrician man of letters in whose writings emotion is subjected to the play of ideas. Yet Borges, born in Buenos Aires in 1899, did not become virtually blind until the 1950s, and in the decades before this affliction and before his books were widely translated and internationally celebrated, he wrote, loved and engage in local polemics with adventurous passion." "In Jorge Luis Borges, Jason Wilson explores Borges' tumultuous early life in the streets and cafes of Buenos Aires and charts his literary friendships, love affairs and travels. Borges claimed never to have invented a character: 'It's always me, subtly disguised.' Illuminating the connections running between the biography and the fictions, Wilson reminds us that Borges was always a poet whose life was recreated in his work - but never in confessional ways - and restores his Argentine roots. This book will be an invaluable resource for all who treasure the modern master."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Jorge Luis Borges
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0811200124

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Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges Pdf

Forty short stories and essays have been selected as representative of the Argentine writer's metaphysical narratives.

Author : Jay Parini
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781984899491

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Borges and Me by Jay Parini Pdf

In this evocative work of what the author in his afterword calls “a kindof novelistic memoir,” Jay Parini takes us back fifty years, when he fled the United States for Scotland—in flight from the Vietnam War and desperately in search of his adult life. There, through unlikely circumstances, he meets the famed Argentinian author Jorge Luis Borges. Borges—visiting his translator in Scotland—is in his seventies, blind and frail. When Borges hears that Parini owns a 1957 Morris Minor, he declares a long-held wish to visit the Highlands, where he hopes to meet a man in Inverness who is interested in Anglo-Saxon riddles. As they travel, stopping at various sites of historical interest, the charmingly garrulous Borges takes Parini on a grand tour of Western literature and ideas, while promising to teach him about love and poetry. As Borges’s idiosyncratic world of labyrinths, mirrors, and doubles shimmers into being, their escapades take a surreal turn. Borges and Me is a classic road novel, based on true events. It’s also a magical mystery tour of an era, like our own, in which uncertainties abound, and when—as ever—it’s the young and the old who hear voices and dream dreams.

Author : Emir Rodríguez Monegal
Publisher : Paragon House Publishers
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Authors, Argentine
ISBN : UCSC:32106009158202

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Jorge Luis Borges by Emir Rodríguez Monegal Pdf

An obscure Argentine, after writing a few laconic stories on philosophical themes, is miraculously discovered by the French literati and goes on to become one of the most admired writers of the 20th century. Though this may sound like a rather improbable film plot, it is the story of Jorge Luis Borges, a story investigated in detail by Borges' close friend Emir Monegal. Professor Monegal, a Borges confidant for more than 30 years, has been able, as no one else possibly could, to unearth the facts from this legend that Borges has so deftly constructed around himself. The result is a narrative as intriguing as one of Borges' own stories of detection. Monegal traces Borges' development as a writer from its beginnings in the child called Georgie who lived in a rundown neighborhood on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, learning to read English before he could read Spanish, to the winner of the most prestigious international literary prizes. He skillfully links Borges' personal history with his literary production, providing a fascinating account of the unfolding and eventual fruition of a creative genius.--From publisher description.

Author : Jorge Luis Borges
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1999-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780140286809

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Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges Pdf

For the first time in English, all the fiction by the writer who has been called “the greatest Spanish-language writer of our century” collected in a single volume “An event, and cause for celebration.”—The New York Times A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition with flaps and deckle-edged paper For some fifty years, in intriguing and ingenious fictions that reimagined the very form of the short story—from his 1935 debut with A Universal History of Iniquity through his immensely influential collections Ficciones and The Aleph, the enigmatic prose poems of The Maker, up to his final work in the 1980s, Shakespeare’s Memory—Jorge Luis Borges returned again and again to his celebrated themes: dreams, duels, labyrinths, mirrors, infinite libraries, the manipulations of chance, gauchos, knife fighters, tigers, and the elusive nature of identity itself. Playfully experimenting with ostensibly subliterary genres, he took the detective story and turned it into metaphysics; he took fantasy writing and made it, with its questioning and reinventing of everyday reality, central to the craft of fiction; he took the literary essay and put it to use reviewing wholly imaginary books. Bringing together for the first time in English all of Borges’s magical stories, and all of them newly rendered into English in brilliant translations by Andrew Hurley, Collected Fictions is the perfect one-volume compendium for all who have long loved Borges, and a superb introduction to the master’s work for all who have yet to discover this singular genius. For more than seventy-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 2,000 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Author : James Woodall
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1997-05-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0465043615

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Borges by James Woodall Pdf

Jorge Luis Borges is one of the seminal figures in twentieth-century literature. His influence on the art of narrative and on the very way people think about writing has been incalculable. All postwar fiction, from García Márquez to Fuentes, Updike to Barth, Calvino to Eco, bears Borges's imprint—in spite of the fact that Borges did not write a single novel.Born at the turn of the century in Argentina, Borges grew up with cosmopolitan parents who fostered his love of literature—and his active imagination. He spent his early youth in Europe, and though he traveled in literary circles, it was not until he returned to Buenos Aires in the late 1930s that he embarked on a substantial writing career of his own. Ficciones and El Aleph , the collections of short stories on which his reputation is based, were cryptic, playful, and vertiginously imagined. They have become benchmarks of Latin American fiction, paving the way for the Magic Realism that followed. Still, fame was slow to come to Borges, and the stature of his work was not recognized until the 1960s. Blind, living with his mother—who died just ten years before he did—and increasingly unpopular in his politics, Borges attracted extraordinary international attention in his later years that lasted until his death in 1986. Borges: A Life is the first biography to be written in English since Borges died, and from it emerges a picture of a complex man who neither courted fame nor acknowledged the literary revolution he set in motion. Based on firsthand research in Buenos Aires, James Woodall's portrait depicts the Borges the world never saw: the young pamphleteering poet obsessed by Walt Whitman and Argentine slang; the sexually timid intellectual falling disastrously in love just as he was writing his finest prose; the guru of Latin American letters whose sole aim in old age was domestic happiness. Casting new light on the background to the stories and the poetry, James Woodall also looks at Buenos Aires itself, a city in one of the most dramatic periods of its history. At the center of Woodall's depiction are the two grand obsessions of Borges's life: his celibate love of women and his loathing of Argentina's most charismatic dictator, Juan Perón.

Author : Jorge Luis Borges
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-31
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780811218757

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Professor Borges: A Course on English Literature by Jorge Luis Borges Pdf

A compilation of the twenty-five lectures Borges gave in 1966 at the University of Buenos Aires, where he taught English literature.

Author : Edwin Williamson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107728820

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The Cambridge Companion to Jorge Luis Borges by Edwin Williamson Pdf

Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) was one of the great writers of the twentieth century and the most influential author in the Spanish language of modern times. He had a seminal influence on Latin American literature and a lasting impact on literary fiction in many other languages. However, Borges has been accessible in English only through a number of anthologies drawn mainly from his work of the 1940s and 1950s. The primary aim of this Companion is to provide a more comprehensive account of Borges's oeuvre and the evolution of his writing. It offers critical assessments by leading scholars of the poetry of his youth and the later poetry and fiction, as well as of the 'canonical' volumes of the middle years. Other chapters focus on key themes and interests, and on his influence in literary theory and translation studies.

Author : Hernan Diaz
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441197795

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Borges, Between History and Eternity by Hernan Diaz Pdf

Considers the intersection of aesthetics, politics and metaphysics in Borges's texts, and analyzes their interaction with the North American canon.

Author : Kate Jenckes
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780791480564

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Reading Borges after Benjamin by Kate Jenckes Pdf

Together with original readings of some of Benjamin’s finest essays, this book examines a series of Borges’s works as allegories of Argentine modernity.

Author : Nala Emme
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 499 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781664181182

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Everything and Nothing by Nala Emme Pdf

Prose and poetry tell the multi-narrative story of one pivotal summer during the lives of four interconnected individuals as they grapple with family conflict, friendship, and individuality, with first love and second chances, with impermanence and spirituality, and with the sweeping awareness of mortality.

Author : M. Toswell
Publisher : Springer
Page : 109 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-11-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137444479

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Borges the Unacknowledged Medievalist by M. Toswell Pdf

The Argentinian writer and poet Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) was many things during his life, but what has gone largely unnoticed is that he was a medievalist, and his interest in Germanic medievalism was pervasive throughout his work. This study will consider the medieval elements in Borges creative work and shed new light on his poetry.

Author : Jorge Luis Borges
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2010-05-25
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780811231282

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Everything and Nothing (New Directions Pearls) by Jorge Luis Borges Pdf

A pocket-sized Pearls edition of some of Borges’ best fictions and essays. Everything and Nothing collects the best of Borges’ highly influential work—written in the 1930s and ‘40s—that foresaw the internet (“Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius”), quantum mechanics (“The Garden of Forking Paths”), and cloning (“Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote”). David Foster Wallace described Borges as “scalp-crinkling . . . Borges’ work is designed primarily as metaphysical arguments...to transcend individual consciousness.”