A Personal AnthologyAfter almost a half a century of scrupulous devotion to his art, Jorge Luis Borges personally compiled this anthology of his work--short stories, essays, poems, and brief mordant "sketches," which, in Borges's hands, take on the dimensions of a genre unique in modern letters. In this anthology, the author has put together those pieces on which he would like his reputation to rest; they are not arranged chronologically, but with an eye to their "sympathies and differences." A Personal Anthology, therefore, is not merely a collection, but a new composition. |
Contents
A New Refutation of Time | 44 |
Limits | 54 |
The Circular Ruins | 68 |
Chess | 75 |
The Other Tiger | 81 |
Parable of the Palace | 87 |
The Enigma of Edward FitzGerald | 93 |
Averroës Search | 101 |
The Maker | 112 |
From Someone to No | 118 |
The Witness | 178 |
The Secret Miracle | 184 |
Conjectural Poem | 192 |
The Art of Poetry | 199 |
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