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Borges, Jorge LuisYates, Donald A.(Introduction by)Fein, John M.(Translated by)Irby, James E.(Translated by)Weinberger, Eliot(Translated by)Yates, Donald A.(Translated by)
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Everything and Nothing collects the best of Borges' highly influential work—written in the 1930s and '40s—that foresaw the internet ("Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius"), quantum mechanics ("The Garden of Forking Paths"), and cloning ("Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote").

David Foster Wallace described Borges as  "scalp-crinkling . . . Borges' work is designed primarily as metaphysical arguments...to transcend individual consciousness.".

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New Directions Books
0811231283 / 9780811231282
eBook (EPUB)
25/05/2010
United States
96 pages
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