Other Inquisitions 1937-1952
by Borges, Jorge Luis; Simms, Ruth L. C. L.Edition: Reprint
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1984-12-01
Publisher(s): Univ of Texas Pr
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Summary
This remarkable book by one of the great writers of our time includes essays on a proposed universal language, a justification of suicide, a refutation of time, the nature of dreams, and the intricacies of linguistic forms. Borges comments on such literary figures as Pascal, Coleridge, Cervantes, Hawthorne, Whitman, Valéry, Wilde, Shaw, and Kafka. With extraordinary grace and erudition, he ranges in time, place, and subject from Omar Khayyam to Joseph Conrad, from ancient China to modern England, from world revolution to contemporary slang.
Table of Contents
| Introduction | |
| The Wall and the BooksPascal' Sphere | |
| The Flower of Coleridge | |
| The Dream of ColeridgeTime and J. W. Dunne | |
| The Creation and P. H. GosseDr. AmTrico Castro is Alarmed | |
| A Note on CarriegoOur Poor Individualism | |
| QuevedoPartial Enchantments of the Quixote | |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne | |
| Note on Walt WhitmanValTry as a Symbol | |
| The Enigma of Edward FitzGerald | |
| About Oscar WildeOn Chesterton | |
| The First WellsThe BiathanatosPascal | |
| The Meeting in a Dream | |
| The Analytical Language of John WilkinsKafka and his PrecursorsAvatars of the Tortoise | |
| On the Cult of Books | |
| The Nightingale of Keats | |
| The Mirror of the EnigmasTwo Books | |
| A Comment on August 23, 1944 | |
| About William Beckford' Vathek | |
| About The Purple LandFrom Someone to Nobody | |
| Forms of a LegendFrom Allegories to Novels | |
| The Innocence of LayamonFor Bernard Shaw | |
| The Modesty of History | |
| New Refutation of Time | |
| Epilogue | |
| Index | |
| Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved. |
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