Borges: 'The Reader' in the twenty-first century.(Argentine writer Jorge...

The Romanic Review;  March 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......to compile a bibliography of only the last ten years of Borges editions and scholarship, after scouring the web and principal libraries, she reported: There are 1336 entries for Borges's bibliography (1996-2006). Would you like me to include...selected here not only confirm the ongoing discussions that ...

BEYOND THE LABYRINTH THE FIRST COMPREHENSIVE BIOGRAPHY OF JORGE LUIS...

The Boston Globe;  August 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ...Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) persuaded his readers that...traces in his work compose his true face. Borges was displeased by psychological writing...perverse). By revising his early poetry, Borges was capable of rewriting his painful youth...

Borges: A Life

Americas;  January 1, 2005 ;     615 words ...BOLD BIOGRAPHIES OF LEGENDARY ARTISTS Borges: A Life, by Edwin Williamson. New York...have appeared-Adams, Franklin, Jefferson, Borges, Neruda, Goya-enabling us to know better...to shape our world. Edwin Williamson's Borges: A LiJe is one of the most fascinating...

Notes to Borges's notes on Joyce: Infinite affinities

Comparative Literature;  October 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ......series of patriarchs, beginning with Borges's father, whom Borges superseded through mentally fathering his own forebear. Borges created an autonomous American literary language that...if Joyce's polyphonic language represented a "stream," Borges's "compact, conceptual" writing represented a ...

BORGES: A LIFE

Comparative Literature;  January 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ...BORGES: A LIFE. By Edwin Williamson. New York: Viking Penguin...p. In an essay on William Beckford's Vathek, Jorge Luis Borges laments that "no one resigns himself to writing the literary...the cosmology of Eureka." Edwin Williamson's biography of Borges cannot be charged with refusing to pay attention to ...

A form of incomprehension: the curious phenomenon of Borges.(Book Review)

Harper's Magazine;  September 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ...Discussed in this essay: Borges: A Life, by Edwin Williamson. Viking...to add the opera omnia of Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986), whose biography Edwin Williamson...crowded pages, the eleventh life of Borges to be published (twelfth, if you count...

Books: Life member of the gaucho club Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis...

The Independent - London;  February 6, 1999 ;     700+ words ......celebrate the centenary of Jorge Luis Borges (who was born in Buenos Aires on the 24 August 1899), the Borges estate and Viking Penguin have commissioned...fictions" from Andrew Hurley. To have all Borges's stories and parables in one hefty volume...

Bookworm and unrequited lover This Life of Jorge Luis Borges tells us much...

The Sunday Telegraph London;  October 3, 2004 ;     700+ words ...Borges: A Life by Edwin Williamson Viking, pounds 25, 574 pp pounds...0870 155 7222 MOST OF THE stories that made Jorge Luis Borges the 20th century's most renowned Hispanic writer were published in Buenos Aires in the 1940s. Borges was already well known in Argentina as a poet and essayist...

JERRY FUNES: THE LORD'S PLAYER

Post-Tribune (IN);  April 6, 1995 ;     700+ words ...PHOTO - 3 (1 COLOR ON COVER) Jerry Funes' Hobart garage is a distribution site for...families in need. Page D3. (Color) Jerry Funes of Portage pays back God by packing food...SLIGHTLY FROM THE PRINTED VERSION. Jerry Funes was a physical wreck, but he didn't sit...

After wrong turns, Borges found a home at Auburn.(The Orange County...

Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  November 28, 2004 ;     700+ words ...Byline: Mark Whicker Al Borges wears Hawaiian shirts and speaks in...into a two-syllable word. Never mind. Borges says he never has felt closer to a college...end of the 2000 season, we all figured Borges was, too. Borges was Bob Toledo's offensive...

After wrong turns, Borges found a home at Auburn.

Orange County Register (Santa Ana, CA);  November 27, 2004 ;     700+ words ...Byline: Mark Whicker Al Borges wears Hawaiian shirts and speaks in...into a two-syllable word. Never mind. Borges says he never has felt closer to a college...end of the 2000 season, we all figured Borges was, too. Borges was Bob Toledo's offensive...

Edwin Wiliamson. Borges. A Life.(Book review)

The Romanic Review;  March 1, 2007 ;     688 words ...Edwin Wiliamson. Borges. A Life. New York: Viking, 2004, Pp...preparation of his biography of Jorge Luis Borges, but the project ended up taking him...and has pondered long on what compelled Borges to be a writer, developing many new insights...

BOOK REPORT; The spirit of Borges lives on, a local author explores...

The Washington Post;  November 12, 2000 ;     700+ words ...The Spirit of Borges Jorge Luis Borges was me. That is, he understood me. His short stories spoke to...reporters asked Kodama questions about the documentary-like film, "Borges, Books and Nights." I wanted to talk to her about the man. Some...

The truth is in the making: Borges and Pragmatism.(Jorge Luis Borges)

The Romanic Review;  March 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ...Jorge Luis Borges's affinities with pragmatism, while certainly...author's philosophical alliances. Did not Borges himself talk of his basic skepticism as...philosophers whose books he annotated the most, Borges also only rarely pronounces his philosophical...

A city with the character, and characters, of Borges

International Herald Tribune;  May 16, 2006 ;     700+ words ......In his story ''The Aleph,'' Jorge Luis Borges had chosen a cellar in one of the anonymous...points'' in the universe.For any admirer of Borges, to wander about Buenos Aires is to collide...ones.The 20th anniversary of the death of Borges is coming in June, and between then and...