Borges: Selected Non-Fictions
by Jorge Luis Borges
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Author: Jorge Luis BorgesEditor: Eliot Weinberger
Translator: Eliot Weinberger
Translator: Esther Allen
Translator: Suzanne Jill Levine
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2000-11-01
ISBN: 0140290117
Number of pages: 560
Publisher: Penguin
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Book Review: A sundae of Borges
Summary: 5 Stars
Borges, besides being a poet and short-fiction writer, took his ultra-worldly ideas to "non-fiction" pieces as well. As you can imagine, the mind-bending work in fiction is even more thought provoking when Borges remarks on Shakespeare, the clipping of one's toes, or the nature of art.Perhaps the best part of this collection are the "non-fictions" from The Chronicles of Bustos Domeqc -- a very cheeky collection of essays which are written about fictive subjects: a poet who is doomed to repeat himself, a new wave of cuisine where taste has devolved to elemental proportions -- salty, sweet, tart, etc.
Borges wrote as a literarist: he knew his work would be collected, read, and re-read. These collection "non-fictions" are finely translated, with a fresh breath and fresh pen by a trio of translaters.
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