This remarkable book by one of the great writers of our time includes essays on a proposed universal language, a justification of suicide, a refutation of time, the nature of dreams, and the intricacies of linguistic forms. Borges comments on such literary figures as Pascal, Coleridge, Cervantes, Hawthorne, Whitman, Valery, Wilde, Shaw, and Kafka. With extraordinary grace and erudition, he ranges in time, place, and subject from Omar Khayyam to Joseph Conrad, from ancient China to modern England, from world revolution to contemporary slang.
- ISBN10 0292733224
- ISBN13 9780292733220
- Publish Date 1 January 1964
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 16 June 2021
- Imprint University of Texas Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 223
- Language English