Seven Nights (A New Directions Book)

Borges, Jorge Luis

ISBN 10: 0811218384 / ISBN 13: 9780811218382

Verlag: New Directions (edition Revised), 2009

The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 0811218384-7-1

Inhaltsangabe:

The Divine ComedyNightmaresThousand and One DreamsBuddhismPoetryThe KabbalahBlindness

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren: Jorge Luis Borges (1890-1982), Argentine poet, critic, and short-story writer, revolutionized modern literature. He was completely blind when appointed the head of Argentina's National Library.

Eliot Weinberger's books of literary essays include Karmic Traces, An Elemental Thing, The Ghosts of Birds, and Angels & Saints. His political writings are collected in What I Heard About Iraq and What Happened Here: Bush Chronicles. The author of a study of Chinese poetry translation, 19 Ways of Looking at Wang Wei, he is a translator of the poetry of Bei Dao and the editor of The New Directions Anthology of Classical Chinese Poetry. He was formerly the general editor of the series Calligrams: Writings from and on China and the literary editor of the Murty Classical Library of India. Among his many translations of Latin American poetry and prose are The Poems of Octavio Paz, Paz's In Light of India, Vicente Huidobro's Altazor, Xavier Villaurrutia's Nostalgiafor Death, and Jorge Luis Borges' Seven Nights and Selected Non-Fictions. He has been publishing with New Directions since 1975.

Poet and translator Alastair Reid lives in New York City.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Seven Nights (A New Directions Book)
Verlag: New Directions (edition Revised)
Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
Einband: Paperback
Zustand: Fair
Auflage: Revised.