The Unreachable Real
Michael Wood: Borges, 8 July 2010
The Sonnets
by Jorge Luis Borges, edited by Stephen Kessler.
Penguin, 311 pp., $18, March 2010,978 0 14 310601 2 Show More
by Jorge Luis Borges, edited by Stephen Kessler.
Penguin, 311 pp., $18, March 2010,
Poems of the Night
by Jorge Luis Borges, edited by Efraín Kristal.
Penguin, 200 pp., $17, March 2010,978 0 14 310600 5 Show More
by Jorge Luis Borges, edited by Efraín Kristal.
Penguin, 200 pp., $17, March 2010,
“... We may think of a famous early lyric that appears in Poems of the Night, a collection of what Efraín Kristal, the volume’s editor, calls Borges’s ‘most eloquent signature poems’, along with others that ‘share oneiric moments, explorations of sleep or insomnia, and meditations on death and blindness’. The poem is called ... ”