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Selected Non-Fictions

Jorge Luis Borges

First published 1999
Publisher Viking
Format Hardcover
Type Nonfiction
Cover art Paul Buckley
Pages xii+548
Price $40.00
ISBN 0670849472

{{Tr|Esther Allen, Suzanne Jill Levine, and Eliot Weinberger}}. Edited by Eliot Weinberger.

First printing
Cover design by Paul Buckley
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Page Title Author(s) Type
28 Literary Pleasure Jorge Luis Borges Essay
43 The Perpetual Race of Achilles and the Tortoise Jorge Luis Borges Essay
48 The Duration of Hell Jorge Luis Borges Essay
52 The Superstitious Ethics of the Reader Jorge Luis Borges Essay
59 The Postulation of Reality Jorge Luis Borges Essay
65 A Defense of Basilides the False Jorge Luis Borges Essay
75 Narrative Art and Magic Jorge Luis Borges Essay
83 A Defense of the Kabbalah Jorge Luis Borges Essay
92 The Translators of The Thousand and One Nights Jorge Luis Borges Essay
112 The Labyrinths of the Detective Story and Chesterton Jorge Luis Borges Essay
115 The Doctrine of Cycles Jorge Luis Borges Essay
123 A History of Eternity Jorge Luis Borges Essay
150 Wells, the Visionary Jorge Luis Borges Essay
155 Ramón Llull's Thinking Machine Jorge Luis Borges Essay
160 When Fiction Lives in Fiction Jorge Luis Borges Essay
175 Der Engel vom westlichen Fenster Jorge Luis Borges & Gustav Meyrink Review
176 The Pursuer Jorge Luis Borges & Louis Golding Review
177 Lord Halifax's Ghost Book Jorge Luis Borges & Charles Lindley, Viscount Halifax Review
182 Chinese Fairy Tales and Folk Tales Jorge Luis Borges & Wolfram Eberhard Review
214 The Total Library Jorge Luis Borges Essay
217 Time and J. W. Dunne Jorge Luis Borges Essay
222 The Creation and P. H. Gosse Jorge Luis Borges Essay
225 Circular Time Jorge Luis Borges Essay
229 John Wilkins' Analytical Language Jorge Luis Borges Essay
236 On William Beckford's "Vathek" Jorge Luis Borges Essay
240 Coleridge's Flower Jorge Luis Borges Essay
243 Prologue to Adolfo Bioy Casares, "The Invention of Morel" Jorge Luis Borges Essay
245 Prologue to Herman Melville, "Bartleby the Scrivener" Jorge Luis Borges Essay
249 Edward Kasner & James Newman, "Mathematics and the Imagination" Jorge Luis Borges Essay
254 Leslie Weatherhead, "After Death" Jorge Luis Borges Essay
259 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Transformed Jorge Luis Borges Essay
317 A New Refutation of Time Jorge Luis Borges Essay
337 From Allegories to Novels Jorge Luis Borges Essay
341 From Someone to Nobody Jorge Luis Borges Essay
344 The Wall and the Books Jorge Luis Borges Essay
351 Pascal's Sphere Jorge Luis Borges Essay
358 On the Cult of Books Jorge Luis Borges Essay
363 Kafka and His Precursors Jorge Luis Borges Essay
369 Coleridge's Dream Jorge Luis Borges Essay
373 Forms of a Legend Jorge Luis Borges Essay
382 The Dialogues of Ascetic and King Jorge Luis Borges Essay
418 Prologue to Ray Bradbury, "The Martian Chronicles" Jorge Luis Borges Essay
437 Prologue to Ryunosuke Akutagawa, "The Kappa" Jorge Luis Borges Essay
501 Prologue to Franz Kafka, "The Vulture" Jorge Luis Borges Essay
503 Prologue to Jack London, "The Concentric Deaths" Jorge Luis Borges Essay
505 Prologue to Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, "The Guest at the Last Banquets" Jorge Luis Borges Essay
507 Prologue to P'u Sung-ling, "The Tiger Guest" Jorge Luis Borges Essay
508 Prologue to Charles Howard Hinton, "Scientific Romances" Jorge Luis Borges Essay
514 Prologue to Julio Cortázar, "Stories" Jorge Luis Borges Essay
516 Prologue to H. G. Wells, "The Time Machine"; "The Invisible Man" Jorge Luis Borges Essay
189|189.1 Two Fantasy Novels Jorge Luis Borges Essay
189|189.2 Man with Four Lives Jorge Luis Borges & William Joyce Cowen Review
189|189.3 L'homme élastique Jorge Luis Borges & Jacques Spitz Review
193|193.2 Apropos of Dolores Jorge Luis Borges & H. G. Wells Review
252|252.1 Arthur Waley, "Monkey" Jorge Luis Borges Essay
252|252.2 Monkey Jorge Luis Borges & Arthur Waley Review
xi A Note on This Edition (Selected Non-Fictions of Borges) Eliot Weinberger Essay