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A personal anthology / Jorge Luis Borges ; edited and with a foreword by Anthony Kerrigan.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986, author.
Contributor:
Kerrigan, Anthony, editor.
Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Series:
Evergreen book
An Evergreen book
Standardized Title:
Antología personal. English
Language:
English
Spanish
Subjects (All):
Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986--Translations into English.
Borges, Jorge Luis.
Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986.
Argentine literature.
Genre:
Translations.
Penn Provenance:
Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
Physical Description:
x, 210 pages ; 21 cm.
Place of Publication:
New York : Grove Press, Inc., [1967]
Summary:
Although they couldn't have had more disparate childhoods--Jim grew up on a struggling Michigan farm while Frankie lived in a Manhattan town house and an English country estate--their shared summer rituals have them falling in love before the reader's eyes.
Contents:
Prologue
Death and the compass
The plot
The south
A page to commemorate Colonel Suárez, Victor at Junín
The dead man
Matthew 25:30
Funes, the Memorious
A new refutation of time
Limits
The circular ruins
Chess
The Golem
Inferno I, 32
The other tiger
A yellow rose
Baltasar Gracián
To an old poet
Parable of the palace
The wall and the books
The enigma of Edward FitzGerald
Ariosto and the Arabs
Averroës' search
A soldier of Urbina
The maker
Everything and nothing
From someone to no one
Forms of a legend
The Zahir
The Aleph
The cyclical night
Allusion to a ghost of the eighteen-nineties
The tango
Biography of Tadeo Isidoro Cruz
The end
Story of the warrior and the captive
The captive
Paradiso XXXI, 108
Luke 23
The witness
The modesty of history
The secret miracle
Conjectural poem
The gifts
The moon
The art of poetry
Borges and I
Poem written in a copy of Beowulf
Editor's epilogue.
Notes:
Translation of Antología personal.
Other Format:
Online version: Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986. Personal anthology.
ISBN:
0802141404
9780802141408
OCLC:
4400306

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