| Other Inquisitions, 1937-1952 Contributor(s): Borges, Jorge Luis (Author), Simms, Ruth L. C. (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0292760027 ISBN-13: 9780292760028 Publisher: University of Texas Press OUR PRICE: $22.72 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 1964 Annotation: 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 to Joseph Conrad, from ancient China to modern England, from world revolution to contemporary slang. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism |
| Dewey: 809 |
| Series: Texas Pan American |
| Physical Information: 0.65" H x 5.98" W x 8.95" (0.76 lbs) 223 pages |
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| Publisher Description: 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, Valéry, Wilde, Shaw, and Kafka. With extraordinary grace and erudition, he ranges in time, place, and subject from Omar Khayyam to Joseph Conrad, from ancient China to modern England, from world revolution to contemporary slang. |