Everything & Nothing by Jorge Luis Borges

Book Description
Celebrating the centennial of his birth, Everything & Nothing compiles the most anthologized and widely read fictions by Jorge Luis Borges, "a giant of world literature" (John Updike, The New Yorker). Some of the narrative pieces herein contained are: "Pierre Menard" in which a modern writer reconstructs passages from Don Quixote that are verbally identical but read differently; "The Garden of Forking Paths," an intellectual variation on the detective-story genre; and "Nightmares," a lecture which, as Alastair Reid puts it, "shifts from personal memories to writers, to an examination of other peoples' metaphors, to language itself." Everything & Nothing serves as a perfect introduction to Borges's genius:

About the Author
Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986), Argentine poet, critic, and short-story writer, was born in Buenos Aires. He was educated in Switzerland and afterwards lived abroad for many years, before making Argentina his permanent home. Afflicted by blindness from an inherited malady, he once said: "Blindness is no handicap for the writer of fantasy. It gives a different sense of time, leaves the mind free and unhampered to explore the depths and heights of human imagination." He helped to found three avant-garde journals and served as director of the National Library, was a member of Argentina's Academy of Letters, and professor of English at the University of Buenos Aires.

 

 

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