This unique Volume presents a Borges almost entirely unknown to American readers: his extraordinary non-fiction prose.
His thousands of pages of essays, reviews, prologues, lectures, and notes on politics and culture--though revered in Latin America and Europe as among his finest work--have scarcely been translated into English..
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism It will come as a surprise to some readers that the greater part of Jorge Luis Borges\'s extraordinary writing was not in the genres of fiction or poetry, but in the various forms of non-fiction prose.
Borges\' unlimited curiosity and almost superhuman erudition become, in his essays, reviews, lectures, and political and cultural notes.
This unique Volume presents a Borges almost entirely unknown to American readers: his extraordinary non-fiction prose
