Waisman, Sergio.: Borges and Translation: The Irreverence of the...

Hispanic Review;  January 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ...WAISMAN, SERGIO. Borges and Translation: The Irreverence of the Periphery...267 pages. Sergio Waisman's Borges and Translation: The Irreverence of the Periphery...the tail of another book on Borges and translation, Efrain Kristal's Invisible...

Beyond translation: Borges and Faulkner

Michigan Quarterly Review;  October 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......effect that the best translations of Borges's oeuvre, not only...readers. It is said in "Borges and I" (in Irby's translation): "what is good belongs...readers thought the translation wasn't by him, aka Jorge Borges, but by his father...

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

The Romanic Review;  March 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......Refutation of Time Professor Bell discusses how the Borgesian presence in Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude...Bosteels continues the examination of philosophy in Borges, focusing on the writer's links to American pragmatism...influences (of which there is an extensive example in Borges's ...

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...

Borges, Jorge Luis

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations;      47 words ...Borges, Jorge Luis 1899–1986 1. The original is unfaithful to the translation. of Henley's translation of Beckford's Vathek Sobre el "Vathek" de William Beckford (1943) 2. The Falklands thing was a fight between...

Notes to Borges's notes on Joyce: Infinite affinities

Comparative Literature;  October 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ......excess."Joyce then curiously represents an excess that Borges was both turning toward and against: he embodied but...and fanatically original (re)writer par excellence, Borges made European writers such as the "excessive"Joyce his own. Like Joyce, Borges was drawn to the vast canonical works they both ...

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 ......centenary of Jorge Luis Borges (who was born in Buenos...the 24 August 1899), the Borges estate and Viking Penguin have commissioned this new translation of his "fictions" from Andrew Hurley. To have all Borges's stories and parables in...time in English, is all of Borges the story-writer. ...

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...instance, ...

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...