On writing /
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| Author / Creator: | Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986. |
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| Uniform title: | Essays. English. Selections |
| Imprint: | New York : Penguin Books, 2010. |
| Description: | xvi, 167 p. ; 20 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Penguin classics Penguin classics. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8108713 |
Table of Contents:
- 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
- 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; T. S. Eliot; Paul Valéry; 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; Julio Cortazár, stories
- The perfect plot; the labyrinths of the detective story and Chesterton; Ellery Queen, Halfway house; Adolfo Bioy Casares, The invention of morel
- Wilkie Collins, The moonstone; the detective story
- Narrative art; stories from Turkestan; the cinematograph, the biograph; narrative art and magic; preface to the 1954 edition of A universal history of infamy; when fiction lives in fiction.