Jorge Luis Borges

Everything and Nothing (New Directions Pearls) (eBook, ePUB)

Übersetzer: Yates, Donald A.; Weinberger, Eliot; Fein, John M.; Irby, James E.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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

Everything and Nothing collects the best of Borges' highly influential workwritten in the 1930s and '40sthat 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: New Directions
• Seitenzahl: 96
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Mai 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780811231282
• Artikelnr.: 61233399

Autorenporträt

Jorge Luis Borges (1890-1982), Argentine poet, critic, and short-story writer, revolutionized modern literature. He was completely blind when appointed the head of Argentina's National Library.