Although Borges referred toEl hacedoras a “crazy-quilt patchwork,” he considered the book to be his most intimate work, and his best. It contains numerous celebrated pieces, including “Borges and I,”“The Yellow Rose,” and “On Exactitude in Science.” It also features one of Borges’...
quiet and luminous like some happy thing recovered by memory, you will give me that shore of your life that you yourself do not own. Cast up into silence I shall discern that ultimate beach of your being and see you for the first time, perhaps, ...
My punishment for life Is the stubborn earth with the incestuous strife Of Cains and Abels and their brood; I await no pardon. Yet, its much to have loved, to have known true joy, To have had -- if only for just one day -- The experience of touching the living Garden. Translated ...
been arrested or murdered. 1 Before the sun set on that day, I would encounter the same fate. Madden was implacable. Or rather, he wa s obliged to be so. An Irishman at the service of England, a man accused of laxity and perhaps of treason, how could he fail to seize and be ...
ThatTigeroftheDream 11.IAlwaysStoodinFearofMirrors AFTERWORD:GeniusoftheWordWillisBarnstone ABOUTTHEPARTICIPANTS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Theconversationspresentedhereasnumbers1,10,and11,andthe readingsandcommentaryincludedasnumber4constitutedtheWilliam T.PattenFoundationLecturesforSpring1980.In1931Mr.WilliamT. Pattenof...
IntheseredlabyrinthsofLondon IfindthatIhavechosen thestrangestofallcallings, savethat,initsway,anycallingisstrange. Likethealchemist whosoughtthephilosopher'sstone inquicksilver, Ishallmakeeverydaywords-- thegambler'smarkedcards,thecommoncoin-- giveoffthemagicthatwastheir whenThorwasboththegodandthedin, ...
ebook书名:博尔赫斯全集I(套装共16册) 作者:豪尔赫·路易斯·博尔赫斯 (Jorge Luis Borges) 出版社:上海译文出版社 出版年:2017年 页数:1335 格式:ebook 内容简介: 《恶棍列传》 博尔赫斯首部小说作品,一九三五年出版,讲述世界各地“恶棍”的故事,既有美国南方的奴隶贩子、纽约黑帮头目,也有冒名顶替望族子弟的英国流浪...
While Borges would profess the same belief in the power of words throughout his life, it’s hard to imagine the mature philosopher using such imperious language as “nobody should dare” and “I have conquered” without a degree of irony. Borges’ widow María Kodama shares an amusing story...
Borges’ sixth book of poems, “In Praise of Darkness,” uses his increasing blindness as a metaphor to reflect on death: “Adding to the mirrors, mazes, and swords that my resigned reader expects, two new themes have appeared: old age and ethics.” To this I would add James Joyce, ...