Jorge Luis Borges - Fiction, Poetry & Nonfiction (17 books)

JORGE LUIS BORGES (1899-1986) was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator. His best-known books are compilations of short stories interconnected by common themes, including dreams, labyrinths, libraries, mirrors, fictional writers, philosophy, and religion. Borges began publishing his poems and essays in surrealist literary journals. He also worked as a librarian and public lecturer. In 1955 he was appointed director of the National Public Library and professor of Literature at the University of Buenos Aires. He became completely blind at the age of 55; as he never learned braille, he became unable to read. Scholars have suggested that his progressive blindness helped him to create innovative literary symbols through imagination.

His international reputation was consolidated in the 1960s when he received the first Prix International, which he shared with Samuel Beckett; with the publication of a major anthology, LABYRINTHS (1962); the beginning of a collaboration with the American translator Norman Thomas di Giovanni; and the boom in Latin American literature following the success of García Márquez's "One Hundred Years of Solitude".

Writer and essayist J. M. Coetzee said of him: "He, more than anyone, renovated the language of fiction and thus opened the way to a remarkable generation of Spanish American novelists." Other critics have deemed Borges the most important figure in Spanish-language literature since Cervantes.


The following books are in PDF format unless otherwise indicated:

* THE ALEPH & OTHER STORIES, 1933-1969 (Bantam, 1971). Edited and translated by Norman Thomas di Giovanni in collaboration with the author.

* THE BOOK OF IMAGINARY BEINGS [with Margarita Guerrero] (Penguin, 1974). Revised, enlarged and translated by Norman Thomas di Giovanni in collaboration with the author.

* THE BOOK OF SAND / THE GOLD OF THE TIGERS (Penguin, 1981). Translated by Norman Thomas di Giovanni and Alastair Reid.

* BORGES AT EIGHTY: Conversations (New Directions, 2013). Edited with photographs by Willis Barnstone. -- ePUB

* BORGES ON WRITING (E. P. Dutton, 1973). Edited by Norman Thomas di Giovanni, Daniel Halpern, and Frank MacShane.

* CHRONICLES OF BUSTOS DOMECQ [with Adolfo Bioy-Casares] (Allen Lane, 1982). Translated by Norman Thomas di Giovanni.

* THE CONGRESS (Enitharmon, 1974). Translated by Norman Thomas di Giovanni in collaboration with the author.

* DOCTOR BRODIE'S REPORT (Bantam, 1973). Translated by Norman Thomas di Giovanni in collaboration with the author.

* EVARISTO CARRIEGO: A Book About Old-time Buenos Aires (E. P. Dutton, 1984). Translated with an Introduction and Notes by Norman Thomas di Giovanni with the assistance of Susan Ashe.

* IN PRAISE OF DARKNESS (Allen Lane, 1975). Bilingual edition. Translated by Norman Thomas di Giovanni.

* LABYRINTHS: Selected Stories & Other Writings (New Directions, 2007). Edited by Donald A. Yates, James E. Irby, with a Preface by André Maurois. -- PDF + ePUB

* PROFESSOR BORGES: A Course on English Literature (New Directions, 2013). Edited by Martín Arias and Martín Hadis. -- ePUB

* SELECTED POEMS, 1923-1967 (Penguin, 1972). Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Norman Thomas di Giovanni.

* SEVEN NIGHTS (New Directions, 1984). Translated by Eliot Weinberger with an Introduction by Alastair Reid.

* SIX PROBLEMS FOR DON ISIDRO PARODI [with Adolfo Bioy-Casares] (Allen Lane, 1981). Translated by Norman Thomas di Giovanni.

* THIS CRAFT OF VERSE: The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures, 1967-1968 (Harvard University Press, 2000). Edited by Calin-Andrei Mihailescu.

* A UNIVERSAL HISTORY OF INFAMY (Penguin, 1975). Translated by Norman Thomas di Giovanni.


Two additional works are available in excellent editions by pharmakate:

COLLECTED FICTIONS

SELECTED NON-FICTIONS