TY  - BOOK
AU  - Borges,Jorge Luis
AU  - Levine,Suzanne Jill
TI  - On writing
T2  - Penguin classics
SN  - 9780143105725
AV  - PQ 7797  B732o 2010
U1  - 864/.62 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - New York
PB  - Penguin Books
KW  - Borges, Jorge Luis,
KW  - Borges, Jorge Luis, 
KW  - Ensayos argentinos
N1  - Includes selections from Selected non-fictions (Penguin, 1999), plus ten new translations; Includes bibliographical references; Becoming a man of letters; ultra manifesto; on expressionism; after images; Joyce's Ulysses; the ballad of reading Gaol -- Word music; verbiage for poems; an investigation of the word; the art of verbal abuse; on literary description; on metaphor; Walt Whitman, Leaves of grass (prologue) -- On translation; two ways to translate; the Homeric versions -- Reading as writing; a profession of literary faith; literary pleasure; the superstitious ethics of the reader; the paradox of apollinaire; Kafka and his precursors; Flaubert and his exemplary destiny -- The critic at work; Virginia Woolf (capsule biography); T. S. Eliot (capsule biography); Paul Valery (capsule biography); William Faulkner, Absalom! absalom!; Herman Mellville, Bartleby the scrivener; Henry James, The abasement of the Northmores; Marcel Schwob, imaginary lives; H. G. Wells, The time machine; The invisible man (prologue); Julio Cortazar, stories (prologue) -- The perfect plot; the labyrinths of the detective story and Chesterton Ellery Queen, The halfway house; Adolfo Bioy Casares, The invention of morel (prologue) -- Wilkie Collins, The moonstone; the detective story -- Narrative art; stories from Turkestan; the cinematograph, the biograph; narrative art and magic; preface to a universal history of infamy; when fiction lives in fiction
ER  -