Selected Non-Fictions by Borges, Jorge Luis -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Title Page A Note on This Edition I. Early Writings 1922–1928

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

II. 1929–1936

The Perpetual Race of Achiles 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 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 The Petrified Forest Wells, the Visionary

III. Writings for El Hogar (Home) Magazine 1936–1939

Ramón 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 Valéry 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 Kommer 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, translator, Chinese Fairy Tales and Folk Tales The Literary Life: Marinetti Richard Hull, Excellent Intentions Meadows Taylor, The Confessions of a Thug William Faulkner, The Unvanquished Lady Murasaki, The Tale of Genji Lord Dunsany, Patches of Sunlight 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. 1937–1945

NOTES 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 A Fragment on Joyce The Creation and P. H. Gosse Circular Time John Wilkins’ Analytical Language On Literary Description On Wiliam 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

BOOK 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 CRITICISM

Two Films An Overwhelming Film Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Transformed Two Films On Dubbing

V. Nine Dantesque Essays 1945–1951

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 The Meeting in a Dream Beatrice’s Last Smile

VI. 1946–1955

Our Poor Individualism The Paradox of Apollinaire On Oscar Wilde A New Refutation of Time 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 Pécuchet Flaubert and His Exemplary Destiny A History of the Tango A History of the Echoes of a Name L’Illusion Comique PROLOGUES

Bret Harte, The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Sketches Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes, Hero-worship and the Heroic in History Ralph Waldo Emerson, Representative Men Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles

LECTURES

The Argentine Writer and Tradition German Literature in the Age of Bach

VII. Dictations 1956–1986

PROLOGUES

Ryunosuke Akutagawa, The Kappa Edward Gibbon, Pages of History 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

PROLOGUES TO THE 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 Cortázar, Stories The Apocryphal Gospels H. G. Wells, The Time Machine; The Invisible Man Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons Thorstein Veblen, The Theory of the Leisure Class Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling Virgil, The Aeneid William James, Varieties of Religious Experience; The Study of Human Nature

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