Particularly revealing are Borges's attacks on Hitler, Fascism, and anti-Semitism published between 19. He expounded on cultural phenomena such as machismo, verbal abuse, and the Germanophilia of the Buenos Aires bourgeoisie, as well as on national politics. He wrote on Kabbalah, the Koran, gnosticism, Chinese literature, and the apocryphal Gospels, but also a column for Hogar, a woman's magazine akin to Ladies' Home Journal. He was as comfortable commenting on Katharine Hepburn as on Paulinus. For many years a movie critic, Borges reviewed fires as diverse as King Kong and Crime and Punishment. Borges wrote prologues to works by the Japanese author Ryunosuke Akutagawa, the Swedish mystic Emanuel Swedenborg, the Czech Jew Franz Kafka, and the American Jack London. The book includes not only essays on Dante, Shakespeare, Kafka, Oscar Wilde, and James Joyce, but an acerbic note on the world's obsession with the Dionne quintuplets and an insightful article on the tango as well. He has made a conscious effort to display Borges's vast erudition, but also his fascination with popular culture. Weinberger has made a careful selection, drawing from all periods and nonfiction genres of Borges's writing. The rest has been newly translated for this edition. Two-thirds of the writing included in this volume has never been translated before. Eliot Weinberger has made available to the English-language reader 161 pieces of Borges's most significant non-fiction pieces, most of it for the first time. Much of this material is still uncollected in book form even in Spanish. Jorge Luis Borges, arguably the most influential Latin American writer of the twentieth century, wrote thousands of pages of nonfiction, including essays, book reviews, film reviews, prologues, encyclopedia entries, and notes on articles and culture. Trans., Esther Allen, Suzanne Jill Levine, Eliot Weinberger.
Selected Non-Fictions, by Jorge Luis Borges.
2000 Organization of American States 04 May. MLA style: "Selected Non-Fictions." The Free Library.
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