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Short Story Collections (Single Author), General & Miscellaneous Essays, Latin American Fiction

Everything and Nothing

by Jorge Luis Borges, Donald A. Yates
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Overview

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.”

Synopsis

A pocket-sized Pearls edition of some of Borges’ best fictions and essays.

Gene H. Bell

As Carlos Fuentes remarked, without Borges, the modern Latin American novel simply would not exist. -The Nation

About the Author, Jorge Luis Borges

This legendary Argentine poet, essayist, and short-story writer's works have become classics of 20th-century world literature, leaving a legacy that serves as an enduring testament to the politics and passions of Jorge Luis Borges.

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Editorials

The New Yorker

“Some of the most witty, uncannily original short fiction in Western Literature.”

The Nation

As Carlos Fuentes remarked, without Borges, the modern Latin American novel simply would not exist.”— Gene H. Bell

Gene H. Bell - The Nation

“As Carlos Fuentes remarked, without Borges, the modern Latin American novel simply would not exist.”

John Barth

“Like the great artists of other centuries, he engages the heart as well as the intelligence; his genius strikes, undismayed as Theseus, through the labyrinths of our life and time to the accomplishment of new,
inspiring and stunningly beautiful work.”

Gene H. Bell

As Carlos Fuentes remarked, without Borges, the modern Latin American novel simply would not exist. -The Nation

Book Details

Published
May 1, 2010
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Pages
129
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780811218832

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