object:Selected Non-Fictions
author class:Jorge Luis Borges object:SNF
Contents
A Note on This Edition
I. E A RLY W RITINGS 192 2-192 8
The Nothingness of Personality
After Images
Joyce's Ulysses
A History of Angels
Verbiage for Poems
A Profession of Literary Faith
Literary Pleasure
An Investigation of the Word
XI
The Perpetual Race of Achilles and the Tortoise
The Duration of Hell
The Superstitious Ethics of the Reader
Our Inabilities
The Postulation of Reality
A Defense of Basilides the False
The Homeric Versions
Narrative Art and Magic
A Defense of the Kabbalah
The Art of Verbal Abuse
The Translators of The Thousand and One Nights
I , a Jew
VI
The Labyrinths of the Detective Story and Chesterton
The Doctrine of Cycles
A History of Eternity
FILM REVIEWS AND CRITICISM
The Cinematograph, the Biograph
Films
Street Scene
King Kong
The Informer
Two Films ( Crime and Punishment; The Thirty-nine Steps)
The Petrified Forest
Wells, the Visionary
III. W RITINGS FO R
EL HOGAR (HOME)
MAGAZIN E 1 93 6- 1 9 3 9
Ramon Llull's Thinking Machine
When Fiction Lives in Fiction
CAPSULE BIOGRAPHIES
Isaac Babel
Ernest Bramah
Benedetto Croce
Theodore Dreiser
T. S. Eliot
Will James
Liam O'Flaherty
Oswald Spengler
Paul Valery
S. S. Van Dine
Virginia Woolf
BooK REVIEWS AND NOTES
Gustav Meyrink, Der Engel vom Westlichen Fenster
Alan Pryce-Jones, Private Opinion
Louis Golding, The Pursuer
Lord Halifax's Ghost Book
William Faulkner, Absalom! Absalom!
Gustaf Janson, Gubben Kom mer
Aldous Huxley, Stories, Essays and Poems
Rabindranath Tagore, Collected Poems and Plays
Ellery Queen, The Door Between
Sir William Barrett, Personality Survives Death
Wolfram Eberhard, tr., Chinese Fairy Tales and Folk Tales
The Literary Life: Marinetti
Richard Hull, Excellen t Intentions
Meadows Taylor, The Confessions of a Thug
William Faulkner, The Unvanquished
Lady Murasaki, The Tale of Genji
Lord Dunsany, Patches ofSunlight
Two Fantasy Novels
The Literary Life: Oliver Gogarty
An English Version of the Oldest Songs in the World
Alan Griffiths, Of Course, Vitelli!
A Grandiose Manifesto from Breton
H. G. Wells' Latest Novel
E. S. Pankhurst, Delphos, or the Future of International Language
Joyce's Latest Novel
The Literary Life: The Dionne Quints
IV. 1 937- 1 9 4 5
N OTES ON GERMANY
&
THE WAR
A Pedagogy of Hatred
A Disturbing Exposition
An Essay on Neutrality
Definition of a Germanophile
1941
Two Books
A Comment on August 23, 1944
A Note on the Peace
The Total Library
Time and J. W. Dunne
VIII
A Fragment on Joyce
The Creation and P. H. Gosse
Circular Time
John Wilkins' Analytical Language
On Literary Description
On William Beckford's Vathek
Coleridge's Flower
PROLOGUES
Adolfo Bioy Casares, The Invention of Morel
Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
Henry James, The Abasement of the Northmores
B o oK REviEws
Edward Kasner & James Newman,
Mathematics and the Imagination
Edward Shanks, Rudyard Kipling:
A Study in Literature and Political Ideas
Arthur Waley, Monkey
Leslie Weatherhead, After Death
FILM REVIEWS AND CRITICIS M
Two Films ( Sabotage; Los muchachos de antes)
An Overwhelming Film ( Citizen Kane)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Transformed
Two Films (Now Voyager; Nightmare)
On Dubbing
V. NIN E DANT E S QU E E S S AY S 1 9 4 5-1 9 51
Prologue
The Noble Castle of the Fourth Canto
The False Problem of Ugolino
The Last Voyage of Ulysses
The Pitying Torturer
Dante and the Anglo-Saxon Visionaries
Purgatorio I, 13
The Simurgh and the Eagle
IT
The Meeting in a Dream
Beatrice's Last Smil
298
VI. 1 9 4 6 -1 9 5 5
3 07
Our Poor Individualism
The Paradox of Apollinaire
On Oscar Wilde
A New Refutation of Time
309
Biathanatos
From Allegories to Novels
From Someone to Nobody
The Wall and the Books
Personality and the Buddha
Pascal's Sphere
The Innocence of Layamon
On the Cult of Books
Kafka and His Precursors
The Enigma of Edward FitzGerald
Coleridge's Dream
Forms of a Legend
The Scandinavian Destiny
The Dialogues of Ascetic and King
A Defense of Bouvard and Pecuchet
Flaubert and His Exemplary Destiny
A History of the Tango
A History of the Echoes of a Name
L'Illusion Comique
333
PROLOGUES
Bret Harte, The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Sketches
Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes, Hero-worship and the Heroic in
History, and Ralph Waldo Emerson, Represen tative Men
Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles
LECTURES
The Argentine Writer and Tradition
German Literature in the Age of Bach
VII. DICTATIONS 1 9 5 6-1 9 8 6
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PROLOGUES
437
Ryunosuke Akutagawa, The Kappa
Edward Gibbon, Pages ofHistory and Autobiography
Catalog of the Exhibition Books from Spain
Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
Emanuel Swedenborg, Mystical Works
LECTURES
The Concept of an Academy and the Celts
The Enigma of Shakespeare
Blindness
Immortality
The Detective Story
T H E LIBRARY OF BABEL
The Library of Babel
Franz Kafka, The Vulture
Jack London, The Concentric Deaths
Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, The Guest at the Last Banquets
P'u Sung-ling, The Tiger Guest
Charles Howard Hinton, Scientific Romances
PROLOGUES TO
A PERSONAL LIBRARY
A Personal Library
Prologue to the Collection
Julio Cortazar, Stories
The Apocryphal Gospels
H. G. Wells, The Time Machine; The Invisible Man
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons
Thorstein Veblen, The Theory of the Leisure Class
S0ren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trem bling
Virgil, The Aeneid
William James, Varieties of Religious Experience;
The Study of Human Nature
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