Everything and Nothing

by Jorge Luis Borges, Donald A. Yates (Translator), Donald A. Yates (Introduction), James E. Irby (Translator), John M. Fein (Translator)

Overview

A pocket-sized Pearls edition of some of Borges’ best fictions and essays.

Everything and Nothing collects the best of Borges’ highly influential work—written in the 1930s and ‘40s—that foresaw the internet (“Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius”), quantum mechanics (“The Garden of Forking Paths”), and cloning (“Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote”). David Foster Wallace described Borges as  “scalp-crinkling . . . Borges’ work is designed primarily as metaphysical arguments...to transcend individual consciousness.”

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780811218832
Publisher:	New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publication date:	05/25/2010
Series:	New Directions Pearls
Pages:	96
Sales rank:	1,127,550
Product dimensions:	4.40(w) x 6.90(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Jorge Luis Borges (1890-1982), Argentine poet, critic, and short-story writer, revolutionized modern literature. He was completely blind when appointed the head of Argentina’s National Library.

Eliot Weinberger is an essayist, editor, and translator. He lives in New York City.

Date of Birth:

August 24, 1899

Date of Death:

June 14, 1986

Place of Birth:

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Place of Death:

Geneva, Switzerland

Education:

B.A., Collège Calvin de Genève, 1914

Editorial Reviews

"Some of the most witty, uncannily original short fiction in Western Literature."

The New Yorker

"Like the great artists of other centuries, he engages the heart as well as the intelligence; his genius strikes, undismayed as Theseus, through the labyrinths of our life and time to the accomplishment of new, inspiring and stunningly beautiful work."

John Barth

"As Carlos Fuentes remarked, without Borges, the modern Latin American novel simply would not exist."

The Nation - Gene H. Bell

As Carlos Fuentes remarked, without Borges, the modern Latin American novel simply would not exist. -The Nation

Gene H. Bell