London: Harvard University Press, 2000. — 161 p. — ISBN: 0-674-00290-3. Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges . ( 24 August 1899 – 14 June 1986), was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish-language literature. His best-known books, Ficciones (Fictions) and El Aleph (The Aleph), published in the 1940s, are compilations of short...
London: Continuum, 2012. — 208 p. — ISBN10: 1441197796; ISBN13: 978-1441197795 That Borges is one of the key figures in twentieth-century literature is beyond debate. The reasons behind this claim, however, are a matter of contention. In Latin America he is read as someone who reorganized the canon, questioned literary hierarchies, and redefined the role of marginal...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. — 308 p. Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) is Argentina's most celebrated author. This volume brings together for the first time the numerous contexts in which he lived and worked; from the history of the Borges family and that of modern Argentina, through two world wars, to events including the Cuban Revolution, military dictatorship,...
Chelsea House, 2008. — 120 p. — (Great Hispanic Heritage). — ISBN-10 0791096653. He was born under a curse. For the middle-aged Jorge Luis Borges, one of Argentina’s most recognized and honored literary figures of the twentieth century, the world was becoming increasingly dark. Yet it was not in the same sense as with the many great authors who write about human tragedies but...
Vanderbilt University Press, 2021. — vi, 168 p. — ISBN 978-0826502261. This book, available for the first time in English, offers a thorough introductory reading of Jorge Luis Borges, one of the most remarkable and influential writers of the twentieth century. Julio Premat, a specialist in the field of Borges studies, presents the main questions posed by Borges's often...
Reaktion Books, 2006. — 224 p. — (Critical Lives). — ISBN 1-86189-286-1, 978-1-86189-286-7, 978-1-86189-590-5. “Through the years, a man peoples a space with images of provinces, kingdoms, mountains, bays, ships, islands, fishes, rooms, tools, stars, horses and people. Shortly before his death, he discovers that the patient labyrinth of lines traces the image of his own face.”...
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