Ducornet and Borges.

The Review of Contemporary Fiction;  September 22, 1998 ;     700+ words ......and numerous other languages in the 1960s. Along...Nabokov, and Calvino, Borges became a figurehead...alliance between Borges and Ducornet is...attitudes and uses of language. Ducornet's language...celebration of the word. Borges pushed similar limits...the end Ducornet's ...

Beyond translation: Borges and Faulkner

Michigan Quarterly Review;  October 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......translations of Borges's oeuvre, not only...but also into the language of Flaubert and...suggested that, given Borges's early British...value of reading Borges in a foreign language. Other reactions...It is said in "Borges and I" (in Irby...but rather to the language and to ...

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

The Romanic Review;  March 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......invitation last year to edit an homage to Borges on the twentieth anniversary of his death, June 14 1986. I first entered the Borgesian labyrinth via One Hundred Years of Solitude, in the late sixties, guided by one of Borges's most important readers, the Uruguayan...

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 ......new forms for the language" (347). Borges's early enthusiasm...his own forebear. Borges created an autonomous American literary language that turned the...Joyce's polyphonic language represented a "stream," Borges's "compact, conceptual...

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...

A Century of Jorge Luis Borges

AP Online;  July 5, 2000 ;     700+ words ......1986, Jorge Luis Borges produced short stories...generation of Spanish-language writers. Now he...Pound. He credits Borges with creating his...meticulous attention to language, and with uniquely...satire. In all, Borges produced more than...translated into dozens of languages, ...

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 ......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, Borges: ...

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...

Inside Language: Linguistic and Aesthetic Theory In Tolkien.(Book review)

Mythlore;  September 22, 2008 ;     700+ words ......for his private languages and fiction (82...including Jorge Luis Borges, Umberto Eco, Roman...as a disease of language (Tolkien Fairy-Stories...The discussion of Borges is some of the most...special study of Borges (independent of...Ernst Cassirer's Language and Myth. Smith...