Other Inquisitions 1937-1952
by: Borges, Jorge Luis

Hardcover. Austin TX, University of Texas Press, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a lightly soiled and tanned dust jacket with a $4.75 flap price. 205 pages. Translated by Ruth L.C. Simms with an introduction by James Irby. A remarkable book by one of the great writers of the twentieth century includes essays on a proposed universal language, a justification of suicide, a refutation of time, the nature of dreams, and the intricacies of linguistic forms. Borges comments on such literary figures as Pascal, Coleridge, Cervantes, Hawthorne, Whitman, Valery, Wilde, Shaw, and Kafka. With extraordinary grace and erudition, he ranges in time, place, and subject from Omar Khayyam to Joseph Conrad, from ancient China to modern England, from world revolution to contemporary slang. Small stamp to front fly leaf, half title page clipped otherwise interior is bright, clean.