Borges A Life
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Borges A Life
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Author : Edwin Williamson
language : en
Publisher: Viking Adult
Release Date : 2004
Borges A Life written by Edwin Williamson and has been published by Viking Adult this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Short story writer, essayist, and poet Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) revolutionized the literature of Latin America almost single-handedly and left a legion of readers and admirers worldwide.Based on an unprecedented range of interviews and on research into previously unknown or unavailable resources, this is the first biography in any language to encompass the entire span of Borges’s life and work. In Borges, Edwin Williamson brings to life the little known human side of the writer: his ancestral roots in Argentina, his relations with family and friends, his passions and despairs, and the evolution of his political ideas. By correlating this new biographical information with Borges’s literary texts, Williamson also reconstructs the dynamics of his inner world—the conflicts, desires, and obsessions that drove the man and shaped his work. This major new study finally unlocks the mysteries that have obscured the life of Borges. The result is a compelling and often poignant portrait that will radically transform our views of this modern master.
Borges
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Author : James Woodall
language : en
Publisher: Basic Books
Release Date : 1997-05-15
Borges written by James Woodall and has been published by Basic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-05-15 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Jorge Luis Borges is one of the seminal figures in twentieth-century literature. His influence on the art of narrative and on the very way people think about writing has been incalculable. All postwar fiction, from García Márquez to Fuentes, Updike to Barth, Calvino to Eco, bears Borges's imprint—in spite of the fact that Borges did not write a single novel.Born at the turn of the century in Argentina, Borges grew up with cosmopolitan parents who fostered his love of literature—and his active imagination. He spent his early youth in Europe, and though he traveled in literary circles, it was not until he returned to Buenos Aires in the late 1930s that he embarked on a substantial writing career of his own. Ficciones and El Aleph , the collections of short stories on which his reputation is based, were cryptic, playful, and vertiginously imagined. They have become benchmarks of Latin American fiction, paving the way for the Magic Realism that followed. Still, fame was slow to come to Borges, and the stature of his work was not recognized until the 1960s. Blind, living with his mother—who died just ten years before he did—and increasingly unpopular in his politics, Borges attracted extraordinary international attention in his later years that lasted until his death in 1986. Borges: A Life is the first biography to be written in English since Borges died, and from it emerges a picture of a complex man who neither courted fame nor acknowledged the literary revolution he set in motion. Based on firsthand research in Buenos Aires, James Woodall's portrait depicts the Borges the world never saw: the young pamphleteering poet obsessed by Walt Whitman and Argentine slang; the sexually timid intellectual falling disastrously in love just as he was writing his finest prose; the guru of Latin American letters whose sole aim in old age was domestic happiness. Casting new light on the background to the stories and the poetry, James Woodall also looks at Buenos Aires itself, a city in one of the most dramatic periods of its history. At the center of Woodall's depiction are the two grand obsessions of Borges's life: his celibate love of women and his loathing of Argentina's most charismatic dictator, Juan Perón.
Jorge Luis Borges
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Author : Jason Wilson
language : en
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Release Date : 2006-10-02
Jorge Luis Borges written by Jason Wilson and has been published by Reaktion Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-10-02 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"The face of Borges most widely known is that of the blind, patrician man of letters in whose writings emotion is subjected to the play of ideas. Yet Borges, born in Buenos Aires in 1899, did not become virtually blind until the 1950s, and in the decades before this affliction and before his books were widely translated and internationally celebrated, he wrote, loved and engage in local polemics with adventurous passion." "In Jorge Luis Borges, Jason Wilson explores Borges' tumultuous early life in the streets and cafes of Buenos Aires and charts his literary friendships, love affairs and travels. Borges claimed never to have invented a character: 'It's always me, subtly disguised.' Illuminating the connections running between the biography and the fictions, Wilson reminds us that Borges was always a poet whose life was recreated in his work - but never in confessional ways - and restores his Argentine roots. This book will be an invaluable resource for all who treasure the modern master."--BOOK JACKET.
Jorge Luis Borges Life Work And Criticism
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Author : Donald A. Yates
language : en
Publisher: Fredericton, N.B. : York Press
Release Date : 1985
Jorge Luis Borges Life Work And Criticism written by Donald A. Yates and has been published by Fredericton, N.B. : York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with Authors, Argentine categories.
Borges And His Fiction
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Author : Gene H. Bell-Villada
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2000-02-01
Borges And His Fiction written by Gene H. Bell-Villada and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-02-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
The acclaimed author of García Márquez delivers “a compulsively readable account of the life and works of our greatest . . . writer of fantasy” (New York Daily News). Since its first publication in 1981, Borges and His Fiction has introduced the life and works of this Argentinian master-writer to an entire generation of students, high school and college teachers, and general readers. Responding to a steady demand for an updated edition, Gene H. Bell-Villada has significantly revised and expanded the book to incorporate new information that has become available since Borges’ death in 1986. In particular, he offers a more complete look at Borges and Peronism and Borges’ personal experiences of love and mysticism, as well as revised interpretations of some of Borges’ stories. As before, the book is divided into three sections that examine Borges’ life, his stories in Ficciones and El Aleph, and his place in world literature. “Of the scores of Borges studies by now published in English, Bell-Villada’s excellent book stands out as one of the freshest and most generally helpful . . . Lay readers and specialists alike will find his book a valuable and highly readable companion to Ficciones and El Aleph.” —Choice
The Cambridge Companion To Jorge Luis Borges
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Author : Edwin Williamson
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2013-12-05
The Cambridge Companion To Jorge Luis Borges written by Edwin Williamson and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-05 with Literary Criticism categories.
A comprehensive account of Borges's life and work, including his early and late poetry, and his hugely influential short stories.
Jorge Luis Borges Number
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Author : Donald A. Yates
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1973
Jorge Luis Borges Number written by Donald A. Yates and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1973 with categories.
The Man In The Mirror Of The Book
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Author : James Woodall
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996-01
The Man In The Mirror Of The Book written by James Woodall and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-01 with Argentine literature categories.
Jorge Luis Borges
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Author : Jorge Luis Borges
language : en
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Release Date : 1998
Jorge Luis Borges written by Jorge Luis Borges and has been published by Univ. Press of Mississippi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This anthology of interviews with Borges features more than a dozen conversations that cover all phases of his life and work.
Jorge Luis Borges The Last Interview
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Author : Jorge Luis Borges
language : en
Publisher: Melville House
Release Date : 2013-06-25
Jorge Luis Borges The Last Interview written by Jorge Luis Borges and has been published by Melville House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-25 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
“Believe me: the benefits of blindness have been greatly exaggerated. If I could see, I would never leave the house, I’d stay indoors reading the many books that surround me.” —Jorge Luis Borges Days before his death, Borges gave an intimate interview to his friend, the Argentine journalist Gloria Lopez Lecube. That interview is translated for the first time here, giving English-language readers a new insight into his life, loves, and thoughts about his work and country at the end of his life. Accompanying that interview are a selection of the fascinating interviews he gave throughout his career. Highlights include his celebrated conversations with Richard Burgin during Borges's time as a lecturer at Harvard University, in which he gives rich new insights into his own works and the literature of others, as well as discussing his now oft-overlooked political views. The pieces combine to give a new and revealing window on one of the most celebrated cultural figures of the past century.