Jorge Luis Borges, Author Planeta $15.95 (0p) ISBN 978-950-04-2258-1
The first volume in Planeta's new line of bilingual (English-Spanish) books presents Borges's autobiographical notes, which were originally published in the New Yorker on September 19, 1970. In them the acclaimed Argentinean poet and cuentista...
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Jorge Luis Borges, Author, Ursula K. Le Guin, Introduction by, Jorge Luis Borges, Other Viking Books $19.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-670-82393-2
Originally conceived of by its Argentinian editors in 1937, and now published in English for the first time, this unusual and provocative volume is an omnibus collection. In addition to stories by Ballard, Poe, Saki, Max Beerbohm, Ray Bradbury, May...
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Jorge Luis Borges, edited by Suzanne Jill Levine, Penguin, $15 paper (192p) ISBN 9780143105725
Translator-editor Levine has distilled the critical writings of one of the 20th century's most distinguished men of letters into a serious treatise on style and the power of words. Included are essays written in the 1920s, the 1980s, and every...
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Jorge Luis Borges, edited by Martín Arias and Martín Hadis, trans. from the Spanish by Katherine Silva. New Directions, $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-8112-1875-7
This mesmerizing volume preserves the eclectic, erudite, and charismatic style of Argentine writer Borges (Labyrinths) and his insights on English literature, via his 1966 class at the University of Buenos Aires. Working from the transcriptions of...
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Jorge Luis Borges, Author, Peter Sis, Illustrator, Andrew Hurley, Translator with Margarita Guerrero, trans. from the Spanish by Andrew Hurley, illus. by Pe Penguin $25.95 (236p) ISBN 978-0-670-89180-1
The master, writing with sometime collaborator Guerrero, compiled 82 one- and two-page descriptions of everything from "The Borametz" (a Chinese "plant shaped like a lamb, covered with golden fleece") to "The Simurgh" ("an
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Jorge Luis Borges, Author, Andrew Hurley, Translator, Eliot Weinberger, Abridged by Viking Books $40 (560p) ISBN 978-0-670-84947-5
Reviewing a book that seeks to validate the existence of ghosts through testimony by the upper crust of British society, Borges writes: ""the Honorable Reginald Fortescue became a firm believer in the existence of `an alarming spectre.' As for...
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Jorge Luis Borges, Author, Andrew Hurley, Translator, Jorge Luis Borges, Preface by Viking Books $40 (565p) ISBN 978-0-670-84970-3
Undeniably one of the most influential writers to emerge in this century from Latin America or anywhere else, Borges (1899-1986) is best known for his short stories, all of which appear here for the first time in one volume, translated and annotated
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Jorge Luis Borges, Author, Calin-Andrei Mihailescu, Editor Harvard University Press $25 (160p) ISBN 978-0-674-00290-6
The Norton lectures at Harvard retain their prestige, even though the annual speakers rarely achieve the general interest of such past invitees as Igor Stravinsky and Leonard Bernstein. Ten years ago the venerable Ashbery (Your Name Here; Forecasts,
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Jorge Luis Borges, Author, Alexander Coleman, Editor Viking Books $40 (576p) ISBN 978-0-670-84941-3
After a few decades devoted to the luminously precise prose for which he is known in the States, Borges (1899-1986), who began his career writing poetry, returned to it with fervor. This edition makes available for the first time in English an...
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