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Jorge Luis Borges
Jason Wilson
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Description for Jorge Luis Borges
Paperback. Born in Buenos Aires in 1899, Jorge Luis Borges was a voracious reader from childhood, perhaps in part because he knew he lived under a sentence of adult-onset blindness inherited from his father. This title chronicles Borges' life, charting the literary friendships, love affairs and polemical writings that formed the foundation of his youth. Series: Critical Lives. Num Pages: 176 pages, 27 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLSA; 2ADS; BGL; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 199 x 131 x 13. Weight in Grams: 279.
'Through the years, a man peoples a space with images of provinces, kingdoms, mountains, bays, ships, islands, fishes, rooms, tools, stars, horses and people. Shortly before his death, he discovers that the patient labyrinth of lines traces the image of his own face'. These words, inseparably marrying life and work, encapsulate how Jorge Luis Borges interwove the two throughout his legendary literary career. But the Borges of popular imagination is the celebrated, blind librarian and man of letters; few biographers have explored his tumultuous early life in the streets and cafes of Buenos Aires, a young man searching for his ... Read more
'Through the years, a man peoples a space with images of provinces, kingdoms, mountains, bays, ships, islands, fishes, rooms, tools, stars, horses and people. Shortly before his death, he discovers that the patient labyrinth of lines traces the image of his own face'. These words, inseparably marrying life and work, encapsulate how Jorge Luis Borges interwove the two throughout his legendary literary career. But the Borges of popular imagination is the celebrated, blind librarian and man of letters; few biographers have explored his tumultuous early life in the streets and cafes of Buenos Aires, a young man searching for his ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Reaktion Books
Condition
New
Series
Critical Lives
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781861892867
SKU
V9781861892867
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Ref
99-15
About Jason Wilson
Jason Wilson is Professor in Latin American Literature at University College, London. He is the author of Octavio Paz: A Study of his Poetics (1979), Octavio Paz (1989), An A-Z of Modern Latin American Literature in English Translation (1989) and Buenos Aires, a Cultural and Literary Companion (1999).
Reviews for Jorge Luis Borges
a balanced and fresh approach ... Wilson's book opens with an inspired, panoramic essay on Borges's relationship with reading, biography and his own personality ... Wilson shows a salutary impatience with critical cliches. Times Literary Supplement