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Organizing the Borges library

Back in July, I wrote briefly in this space about a new collection of Borges’s nonfiction, On Writing. That book was only one of five themed volumes of Borges’s nonfiction writing that Penguin Classics published this year–On Writing, On Argentina, On Mysticism, Poems of the Night, and The Sonnets–and last week Suzanne Jill Levine, who edited the volumes (and translated much of their content), took the time to answer a couple of questions, via e-mail, about the selection process and the pleasures of working with the Borges corpus.

Borges on Writing

Borges’s thoughts on writing–some new, some old.

Extreme Acts of Literary Asceticism

Now this is why I love Borges.



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