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

The Romanic Review;  March 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......modernist novels, Finnegan's Wahe (2)--is introduced by Borges, with his usual understated wit, as a vernacular Argentine...as a fatal record of man's forgetfulness, as well as Borges's magnificently mischievous essay A New Refutation of Time Professor Bell discusses how the Borgesian presence in Garcia ...

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 ......Proust, cited by Beckett. THOUGH JAMES JOYCE AND JORGE LUIS BORGES shared the brotherhood of blindness...half of the twentieth century, Borges in the second. From his 1925...1969 poem "Invocation to Joyce," Borges alternated between admiration...

BORGES: A LIFE

Comparative Literature;  January 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......repeating themselves" as Borges. Williamson's view of Borges's psychological development stresses his relationship...this relationship explains what he calls "the history of [Borges's] doomed relationships with women" (359), a history of...rejections that was finally broken by Maria Kodama, who became ...

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

Harper's Magazine;  September 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......Williamson's bibliography), whose Mystery to a Solution: Poe, Borges, and the Analytic Detective Story (1994) argues that Poe is at the root of much of Borges. Poe could have written Pierre Menard or a story very like it. Borges has acknowledged his debt to Poe. Kipling, too, has a...everybody. What I've ...

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 ......judgment became erratic when he entered old age in the 1970s. Borges's loathing for the populist dictatorship of Juan Peron...a "superstition" and expressed admiration for Franco. Borges soon changed his mind about the virtues of military government...to forgive. Edwin Williamson's massive new biography, ...

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 ......years to the preparation of his biography of Jorge Luis Borges, but the project ended up taking him twice that amount...biographical material and has pondered long on what compelled Borges to be a writer, developing many new insights around which...singularly dedicated to literature--might have been. ...

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...

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...

The Man in the Mirror of the Book: A Life of Jorge Luis Borges.

The Economist (US);  July 20, 1996 ;     700+ words ......seemed possessed by heat and fever, flowers and blood, Borges retained always the cool detachment of the European north...old, insisting there was no integrity in it. The typical Borges story (as seen in Labyrinths , Fictions , or The Aleph...as scholarly research, but with an overlay of mischief. Borges ...

Borges's THE DRAPED MIRRORS.(Brief Article)(Critical Essay)

The Explicator;  June 22, 1994 ;     681 words ...Critics have associated Borges's use of mirrors in his short stories...literature is a central element of Borges's aesthetics, the symbol of the mirror...that is too often ignored: In some borgesian texts, mirrors can also be said to...