Everything & Nothing

by Jorge Luis Borges
Everything & Nothing  
published April 1st 1999 by New Directions Publishing Corporation
binding Paperback
isbn 0811214001   (isbn13: 9780811214001)
pages 108
description Fiction. Translated by Donald Yates, James Irby, John Fein, and Eliot Weinburger, and with an h an introduction by Donald Yates, Everything and Nothi...more
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12-22-06



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Christopherseelie
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06/12/07

Read in May, 2007
recommends it for: World Lit fans
Does New Directions make bad books?
This is perhaps the best introduction to Jorge Luis Borges. It is short, and covers all the bases. However, I was fortunate enough to read first a story not included here that it still one of my favorites. Regardless, this book contains his best nonfiction essays, and several stories central to his fame. Strike that, his legacy.
For sheer wit diguising profundity: Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote
-In which Borges exhibits the tenuous nature of meaning t...more
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Read in March, 2007
Amelia recommended Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote, but I recommend Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius and The Garden of Forking Paths. Also, the Believer loves this guy. So if you read the believer, you should read this.
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Has a copy to sell/swap — Read in February, 2008
A startling but pleasant batch of surrealism that draws from many philosophical and physical concepts. Must read for fantasy/sci-fi literary junkies but would be enjoyable for anyone who enjoys the odd and fantastic.
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06/08/08

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Borges is absolutely brilliant. This slim volume remarkably showcases his genius not only as short-story writer, but also as philosopher, historian, literary theorist, sociologist, and general Renaissance man.
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Read in June, 2008
While reading this book I kept getting lost, whether in the subway or in my own room. It was the good kind of lost, mostly.
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Read in January, 2007
Shares a kind of warped magical realism with Garcia Marquez
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