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The Total Library: Non-Fiction 1922-1986

Verity Smith, Jorge Luís Borges, Eliot Weinberger

The Modern Language Review· 2001-04-01· article· 104 citationsclosed

Borges, Kipling, and Jewish Identity Latin American Literature Analysis Argentine historical studies

Abstract

Though best known in the English speaking world for his short fictions and poems, Borges is revered in Latin America equally as an immensely prolific and beguiling writer of non-fiction prose. In The Total Library, more than 150 of Borges' most brilliant pieces are brought together for the first time in one volume - all in superb new translations. More than a hundred of the pieces have never previously been published in English. The Total Library presents Borges at once as a deceptively self-effacing guide to the universe and as the inventor of a universe that is an indispensible guide to Borges.

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Verity Smith, Jorge Luís Borges, Eliot Weinberger (2001). The Total Library: Non-Fiction 1922-1986. The Modern Language Review. https://doi.org/10.2307/3737452

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  title  = {The Total Library: Non-Fiction 1922-1986},
  author = {Smith, Verity and Borges, Jorge Luís and Weinberger, Eliot},
  year   = {2001},
  journal = {The Modern Language Review},
  doi    = {10.2307/3737452}
}