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The Total Library

Non-Fiction 1922-1986

Jorge Luis Borges author Esther Allen translator Suzanne Levine translator

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd

Published:18th Jan '01

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The Total Library cover

Winner of the National Book Critics Cicrle Award for Criticism.

Though best known in the English speaking world for his short fictions and poems, Borges is revered in Latin America equally as an immensely prolific and beguiling writer of non-fiction prose. This title features more than 150 of Borges' pieces.Though best known in the English speaking world for his short fictions and poems, Borges is revered in Latin America equally as an immensely prolific and beguiling writer of non-fiction prose. In THE TOTAL LIBRARY, more than 150 of Borges' most brilliant pieces are brought together for the first time in one volume - all in superb new translations. More than a hundred of the pieces have never previously been published in English. THE TOTAL LIBRARY presents Borges at once as a deceptively self-effacing guide to the universe and as the inventor of a universe that is an indispensible guide to Borges

ISBN: 9780141183022

Dimensions: 197mm x 129mm x 25mm

Weight: 397g

576 pages