![]() ![]() ![]() A similar sensibility pervadesīoth (I am leaving the poetry volume out of consideration here), a sensibility in which an avidity for knowledge, a cabalistic thirst and a poetic taste for images propel the mind into every enigma created by the human ![]() Reading this latest in what is now Viking's three-volume set of this great Argentine's works is to see how Borges' fiction represented a mere short step from his essays. He is most widely read for his fiction, but this intelligently selected and magically translated collection of Borges' nonfiction demonstrates, among other things, the closeness of his two worlds, reality and invention. He was, in short, strange in his determined quest for arcane knowledge and his use of that knowledge in the creation of a literary universe. Of human perplexity he probed the diabolical he invented perfect murders. He loved paradox, the search for meaning in things, the labyrinth as a symbol Orge Luis Borges was the master of the short, erudite mysterious story. Translated by Esther Allen, Suzanne Jill Levine and Eliot Weinberger. 'Selected Nonfictions': Borges' Worlds of Reality and InventionīOOKS OF THE TIMES 'Selected Nonfictions': Borges' Worlds of Reality and Inventionīy Jorge Luis Borges. ![]()
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