"Di Giovanni first met Jorge Luis Borges in 1967, when the Argentine writer was lecturing at Harvard. Impressed by di Giovanni's editorial skills, Borges invited the young translator to Buenos Aires. There, over the course of four years, the two embarked on a major translation o…
Jorge Luis Borges was a literary spellbinder whose tales of magic, mystery and murder are shot through with deep philosophical paradoxes. This collection brings together many of his stories, including the celebrated Library of Babel.
A collection of tales, literary and metaphysical essays, and parables. The short stories have dreamlike esoteric, and mystical themes, but throughout the book recurs the image of the labyrinth in the fantasy of the dremam within a dream, the circular repetition of time and of hi…
Forty short stories and essays have been selected as representative of the Argentine writer's metaphysical narratives.
