num_pages: 108
description: "Some of the most witty, uncannily original short fiction in Western Literature."― The New Yorker Celebrating the centennial of his birth, Everything and Nothing compiles the most anthologized and widely read fictions by Jorge Luis Borges, "a giant of world literature" (John Updike, The New Yorker). Some of the narrative pieces herein contained "Pierre Menard" in which a modern writer reconstructs passages from Don Quixote that are verbally identical but read differently; "The Garden of Forking Paths," an intellectual variation on the detective-story genre; and "Nightmares," a lecture which, as Alastair Reid puts it, "shifts from personal memories to writers, to an examination of other peoples' metaphors, to language itself." Everything and Nothing serves as a perfect introduction to Borges's genius.
language: English
title: Everything and Nothing
titlecomplete: Everything and Nothing
genres: Spanish Literature, Short Stories, Essays, Short Story Collection, Philosophy, Poetry, Literature, Collections, Classics, Fiction
ratings_count: 834
publisher: New Directions