Selected Non-Fictions,9780140290110

Selected Non-Fictions

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ISBN13: 9780140290110
ISBN10: 0140290117
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2000-11-01
Publisher(s): Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Summary

This unique volume presents a Borges almost entirely unknown to American readers: his extraordinary non-fiction prose. Borges' unlimited curiosity and almost superhuman erudition become, in his essays, reviews, lectures, and political and cultural notes.

Table of Contents

A Note on This Edition xi
Early Writings 1922--1928
1(40)
The Nothingness of Personality
3(7)
After Images
10(2)
Joyce's Ulysses
12(4)
A History of Angels
16(4)
Verbiage for Poems
20(3)
A Profession of Literary Faith
23(5)
Literary Pleasure
28(4)
An Investigation of the Word
32(9)
1929--1936
41(112)
The Perpetual Race of Achilles and the Tortoise
43(5)
The Duration of Hell
48(4)
The Superstitious Ethics of the Reader
52(4)
Our Inabilities
56(3)
The Postulation of Reality
59(6)
A Defense of Basilides the False
65(4)
The Homeric Versions
69(6)
Narrative Art and Magic
75(8)
A Defense of the Kabbalah
83(4)
The Art of Verbal Abuse
87(5)
The Translators of The Thousand and One Nights
92(18)
I, a Jew
110(2)
The Labyrinths of the Detective Story and Chesterton
112(3)
The Doctrine of Cycles
115(8)
A History of Eternity
123(17)
Film Reviews and Criticism
140(13)
The Cinematograph, The Biograph
140(3)
Films
143(2)
Street Scene
145(1)
King Kong
146(1)
The Informer
147(1)
Two Films (Crime and Punishment; The Thirty-nine Steps)
148(1)
The Petrified Forest
149(1)
Wells, the Visionary
150(3)
Writings For EL Hogar (Home) Magazine 1936--1939
153(44)
Ramon Llull's Thinking Machine
155(5)
When Fiction Lives in Fiction
160(3)
Capsule Biographies
163(12)
Isaac Babel
163(1)
Ernest Bramah
164(1)
Benedetto Croce
165(1)
Theodore Dreiser
166(1)
T.S. Eliot
167(1)
Will James
168(1)
Liam O'Flaherty
169(1)
Oswald Spengler
170(1)
Paul Valery
171(1)
S. S. Van Dine
172(1)
Virginia Woolf
173(2)
Book Reviews and Notes
175(22)
Der Engel vom Westlichen Fenster
175(1)
Gustav Meyrink
Private Opinion
175(1)
Alan Pryce-Jones
The Pursuer
176(1)
Louis Golding
Lord Halifax's Ghost Book
177(1)
Absalom! Absalom!
178(1)
William Faulkner
Gubben Kommer
179(1)
Gustaf Janson
Stories, Essays and Poems
180(1)
Aldous Huxley
Collected Poems and Plays
180(1)
Rabindranath Tagore
The Door Between
181(1)
Ellery Queen
Personality Survives Death
182(1)
Sir William Barrett
Wolfram Eberhard, tr., Chinese Fairy Tales and Folk Tales
182(1)
The Literary Life: Marinetti
183(1)
Excellent Intentions
184(1)
Richard Hull
The Confessions of a Thug
185(1)
Meadows Taylor
The Unvanquished
186(1)
William Faulkner
The Tale of Genji
186(1)
Lady Murasaki
Patches of Sunlight
187(2)
Lord Dunsany
Two Fantasy Novels
189(1)
The Literary Life: Oliver Gogarty
190(1)
An English Version of the Oldest Songs in the World
190(1)
Of Course, Vitelli!
191(1)
Alan Griffiths
A Grandiose Manifesto from Breton
191(2)
H. G. wells' Latest Novel
193(1)
Delphos, or the Future of International Language
194(1)
E. S. Pankhurst
Joyce's Latest Novel
195(1)
The Literary Life: The Dionne Quints
196(1)
1937--1945
197(68)
Notes on Germany & the War
199(15)
A Pedagogy of hatred
199(1)
A Disturbing Exposition
200(2)
An Essay on Neutrality
202(1)
Definition of a Germanophile
203(3)
1941
206(1)
Two Books
207(3)
A Comment on August 23, 1944
210(2)
A Note on the Peace
212(2)
The Total Library
214(3)
Time and J. W. Dunne
217(3)
A Fragment on Joyce
220(2)
The Creation and P.H. Gosse
222(3)
Circular Time
225(4)
John Wilkins' Analytical Language
229(4)
On Literary Description
233(3)
On William Beckford's Vathek
236(4)
Coleridge's Flower
240(3)
Prologues
243(6)
The Invention of Morel
243(2)
Adolfo Bioy Casares
Bartleby the Scrivener
245(2)
Herman Melville
The Abasement of the Northmores
247(2)
Henry James
Book Reviews
249(8)
Mathematics and the Imagination
249(1)
Edward Kasner
James Newman
Rudyard Kipling: A Study in Literature and Political Ideas
250(2)
Edward Shanks
Monkey
252(2)
Arthur Waley
Leslie Weatherhead, After Death
254(3)
Film Reviews and Criticism
257(8)
Two Films (Sabotage; Los muchachos de antes)
257(1)
An Overwhelming Film (Citizen Kane)
258(1)
Transformed
259(2)
Dr. Jekyll
Mr. Hyde
Two Films (Now Voyager; Nightmare)
261(1)
On Dubbing
262(3)
Nine Dantesque Essays 1945--1951
265(42)
Prologue
267(5)
The Noble Castle of the Fourth Canto
272(5)
The False Problem of Ugolino
277(3)
The Last Voyage of Ulysses
280(4)
The Pitying Torturer
284(3)
Dante and the Anglo-Saxon Visionaries
287(5)
Purgatorio I, 13
292(2)
The Simurgh and the Eagle
294(4)
The Meeting in a Dream
298(4)
Beatrice's Last Smile
302(5)
1946--1955
307(128)
Our Poor Individualism
309(2)
The Paradox of Apollinaire
311(3)
On Oscar Wilde
314(3)
A New Refutation of Time
317(16)
Biathanatos
333(4)
From Allegories to Novels
337(4)
From Someone to Nobody
341(3)
The Wall and the Books
344(3)
Personality and the Buddha
347(4)
Pascal's Sphere
351(3)
The Innocence of Layamon
354(4)
On the Cult of Books
358(5)
Kafka and His Precursors
363(3)
The Enigma of Edward FitzGerald
366(3)
Coleridge's Dream
369(4)
Forms of a Legend
373(4)
The Scandinavian Destiny
377(5)
The Dialogues of Ascetic and King
382(4)
A Defense of Bouvard and Pecuchet
386(4)
Flaubert and His Exemplary Destiny
390(4)
A History of the Tango
394(11)
A History of the Echoes of a Name
405(4)
L'Illusion Comique
409(2)
Prologues
411(9)
The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Sketches
411(2)
Bret Harte
On Heroes, Hero-worship and the Heroic in History, and Ralph Waldo Emerson, Representative Men
413(5)
Thomas Carlyle
The Martian Chronicles
418(2)
Ray Bradbury
Lectures
420(15)
The Argentine Writer and Tradition
420(7)
German Literature in the Age of Bach
427(8)
Dictations 1956--1986
435(88)
Prologues
437(21)
The Kappa
437(1)
Ryunosuke Akutagawa
Pages of History and Autobiography
438(6)
Edward Gibbon
Catalog of the Exhibition Books from Spain
444(1)
Leaves of Grass
445(4)
Walt Whitman
Mystical Works
449(9)
Emanuel Swedenborg
Lectures
458(42)
The Concept of an Academy and the Celts
458(5)
The Enigma of Shakespeare
463(10)
Blindness
473(10)
Immortality
483(8)
The Detective Story
491(9)
Prologues to The Library of Babel
500(11)
The Library of Babel
500(1)
The Vulture
501(2)
Franz Kafka
The Concentric Deaths
503(2)
Jack London
The Guest at the Last Banquets
505(2)
Villiers de l'Isle-Adam
The Tiger Guest
507(1)
P'u Sung-ling
Scientific Romances
508(3)
Charles Howard Hinton
Prologues to A Personal Library
511(12)
A Personal Library
511(2)
Prologue to the collection
513(1)
Stories
514(1)
Julio Cortazar
The Apocryphal Gospels
515(1)
The Time Machine; The Invisible Man
516(1)
H. G. Wells
Demons
517(1)
Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Theory of the Leisure Class
518(1)
Thorstein Veblen
Fear and Trembling
518(1)
Søren Kierkegaard
Virgil, The Aeneid
519(2)
Varieties of Religious Experience; The Study of Human Nature
521(2)
William James
Notes 523(25)
Index 548

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