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On writing / Jorge Luis Borges ; edited with an introduction and notes by Suzanne Jill Levine.
- Title
- On writing / Jorge Luis Borges ; edited with an introduction and notes by Suzanne Jill Levine.
- Author
- Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986
- Publication
- New York : Penguin Books, 2010.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Levine, Suzanne Jill
- Description
- xvi, 167 p.; 20 cm.
- Summary
- Borges' On Writing is designed to offer a comprehensive and balanced account of the evolution of Borges' thinking on the craft of writing, an intense and perennial concern of his. Borges had a remarkable impact on writers in the USA, Britain, Italy, France and many other countries. His essays were perceived to have anticipated some of the principal topics of modern literary theory, from Russian formalism through to poststructuralism and postmodernism.
- Series Statement
- Penguin classics
- Uniform Title
- Essays. Selections. English
- Penguin classics.
- Alternative Title
- Essays.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Translations
- Note
- Includes selections from Selected non-fictions (Penguin, 1999), plus ten new translations.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Becoming a man of letters: Ultra manifesto ; On expressionism ; After images ; Joyce's Ulysses ; The ballad of reading Gaol -- Word music: Verbiage for poems ; An investigation of the word ; The art of verbal abuse ; On literary description ; On metaphor ; Walt Whitman, Leaves of grass -- On translation: Two ways to translate ; The Homeric versions -- Reading as writing: A profession of literary faith ; Literary pleasure ; The superstitious ethics of the reader ; The paradox of Apollinaire ; Kafka and his precursors ; Flaubert and his exemplary destiny -- The critic at work: Virginia Woolf ; T. S. Eliot ; Paul Valery ; William Faulkner, Absalom! absalom! ; Herman Mellville, Bartleby the scrivener ; Henry James, The abasement of the Northmores ; Marcel Schwob, imaginary lives ; H. G. Wells, The time machine ; The invisible man ; Julio Cortazar, stories -- The perfect plot: The labyrinths of the detective story and Chesterton ; Ellery Queen, The halfway house ; Adolfo Bioy Casares, The invention of morel ; Wilkie Collins, The moonstone ; The detective story -- Narrative art: Stories from Turkestan ; The cinematograph, the biograph ; Narrative art and magic ; Preface to a universal history of infamy ; When fiction lives in fiction.
- ISBN
- 9780143105725
- 0143105728
- LCCN
- ^^2010011189
- OCLC
- 468975304
- SCSB-12656847
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library