Description
Book SynopsisAn introduction to the life and works of this Argentinian master-writer.
Trade ReviewFrom reviews of the first edition: "A compulsively readable account of the life and works of our greatest ... writer of fantasy. With a keen appreciation of Borges himself and a pleasant disregard for the critical cliches, Bell-Villada tells us all we really want to know about the modern master--from pronouncing his name to understanding the stories." New York Daily News "Of the scores of Borges studies by now published in English, Bell-Villada's excellent book stands out as one of the freshest and most generally helpful... Lay readers and specialists alike will find his book a valuable and highly readable companion to Ficciones and El Aleph." --Choice
Table of Contents
- Preface to the Revised Edition
- Preface to the 1981 Edition
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Page References
- Chronology
- Part I. Borges's Worlds
- 1. Buenos Aires and Beyond
- 2. A Sort of Life, a Special Mind
- 3. What Borges Did for Prose Fiction
- Part II. Borges's Fictions
- 4. The Apprentice Fiction Maker
- 5. Ficciones I: Doubles, Dreamers, and Detectives
- 6. Ficciones II: The World within a Book
- 7. El Aleph I: Doubles and Puzzles
- 8. El Aleph II: Tales of Action and Violence
- 9. El Aleph III: The Visionary Experience
- Part III. Borges's Place in Literature
- 10. Dreamtigers and Later Works: A Tentative Summation
- 11. Literature and Politics North and South
- 12. Borges as Argentine Author: And Other Self-Evident (If Often Ignored) Truths Abbreviations
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
