Description: This unique volume presents a Borges almost entirely unknown to American readers: his extraordinary non-fiction prose. Borges' unlimited curiosity and almost superhuman erudition become, in his essays, reviews, lectures, and political and cultural notes.
Review Quotes: "Dizzying in scope and dazzling in execution . . . Should throw even the most dedicated Borges fan for a loop." --The New Yorker
"Superb . . . Indispensable to both the longtime Borges reader and the newcomer." --The Wall Street Journal "Intelligently selected and magically translated . . . Borges's uniqueness in 20th-century letters is rooted in an almost monstrous combination: encyclopedic knowledge, razorlike critical judgment and a ravishing appreciation for the magical and pagan dimension in every situation." --The New York Times "A remarkable achievement, offering the general reader and Borges aficionados alike a rapturous glimpse into one of literature's most fertile and original minds." --San Francisco Chronicle "If any recent essay collection can be considered revelatory, it is Borges's Selected Non-Fictions." --Phillip Lopate, Lingua Franca "Sheer delight . . . Witty and elaborate, in turn intimate and magisterial . . . His is the literature of eternity." --Peter Ackroyd, The Times (London) "A cornucopia of wit, wisdom and critical insights." --George Steiner, The Times Literary Supplement "Beautifully translated and scrupulously edited . . . This book will in turn illuminate and puzzle, excite admiration and exasperation. Borges would be delighted with such a result." --The Spectator "A genuine addition to the Borges canon . . . Borges's bravura performances raise criticism to the power of poetry and are as exciting and imaginative as his celebrated verse and fiction." --The Daily Telegraph "Selected Non-Fictions is the most important volume of Borges's writings to appear since Ficciones. . . . This volume should become as essential to the English-language canon as those by Eliot and Pound." --Roberto González Echevarría, Yale University "Borges's essays are unforgettable, most of all for their originality, their diversity, and for the writing itself. Humor, restraint, insight--and then, suddenly, something bizarre . . . All comparisons are deceptive: Borges, above all, resembles Borges." --Octavio Paz