The book includes not only essays on Dante, Shakespeare, Kafka, Oscar Wilde, and James Joyce, but an acerbic note on the world's obsession with the Dionne quintuplets and an insightful article on the tango as well. He has made a conscious effort to display Borges's vast erudition, but also his fascination with popular culture. Weinberger has made a careful selection, drawing from all periods and nonfiction genres of Borges's writing. The rest has been newly translated for this edition. Two-thirds of the writing included in this volume has never been translated before. Eliot Weinberger has made available to the English-language reader 161 pieces of Borges's most significant non-fiction pieces, most of it for the first time. Much of this material is still uncollected in book form even in Spanish. Jorge Luis Borges, arguably the most influential Latin American writer of the twentieth century, wrote thousands of pages of nonfiction, including essays, book reviews, film reviews, prologues, encyclopedia entries, and notes on articles and culture. Trans., Esther Allen, Suzanne Jill Levine, Eliot Weinberger. Selected Non-Fictions, by Jorge Luis Borges. 2000 Organization of American States 04 May. MLA style: "Selected Non-Fictions." The Free Library.
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