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the mysterious mr.borges
dr.christ has written the single best explication of borges i have come across to date .he is a fine scholar whose style is accessible to all readers.borges is not an easy writer to comprehend,but after reading christ's book i understand him far better than before.i highly recommendTHE NARROW ACT.DR.JAMES F.MULLAN

A poetry of essential metaphor - the art of Borges Literature
This study was the first book- length one of Borges work in English. It was highly commended by Borges himself.
The author goes to the roots of Borges creative process, traces his aesthetic from his early days as poet and linguistic theorist through his creation of the 'Ficciones' for which he is most well- known.
At the heart of the Borges' doctrine is an idea of poetic concision, of creating works of essential metaphor without embellishments and decorations. The ideal of Borges is that the work should be stripped clear of verbiage and vagueness. The elaboration of this aesthetic leads to a discussion of how Borges' transformed his original ideas in time into great works of Literature. ... Read more