02642cam a22003734a 4500 113529 113529 16145767 BJBSDDR 20230411090610.0 ta 231019s2010 nyu b 000 0 eng 2010011189 9780143105725 0143105728 DLC DLC DLC spa eng spa PQ 7797 B732o 2010 864/.62 22 Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986 9305 Essays. Selections. English On writing / Jorge Luis Borges ; edited with an introduction and notes by Suzanne Jill Levine. New York : Penguin Books, 2010. xvi, 167 pages ; 20 cm. Penguin classics Includes selections from Selected non-fictions (Penguin, 1999), plus ten new translations. Includes bibliographical references. 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 (prologue) -- 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 (capsule biography); T. S. Eliot (capsule biography); Paul Valery (capsule biography); 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 (prologue); Julio Cortazar, stories (prologue) -- The perfect plot; the labyrinths of the detective story and Chesterton Ellery Queen, The halfway house; Adolfo Bioy Casares, The invention of morel (prologue) -- 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. Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986 Translations into English. Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986 Knowledge Literature. Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986 Colecciones de escritos 10197 Colecciones de escritos 10196 Ensayos argentinos Levine, Suzanne Jill 9308 9752 Penguin classics lcc BK 0 0 lcc 0 0 HU BJB BJB HU 2019-10-23 0 PQ 7797 B732o 2010 00000122482 2019-10-23 00:00:00 1 2023-04-11 BK