num_pages: 223
description: This remarkable book by one of the great writers of our time includes essays on a proposed universal language, a justification of suicide, a refutation of time, the nature of dreams, and the intricacies of linguistic forms. Borges comments on such literary figures such as Pascal, Coleridge, Cervantes, Hawthorne, Whitman, Valery, Wilde, Shaw, and Kafka. With extraordinary grace and erudition, he ranges in time, place, and subject from Omar Khayyam to Joseph Conrad, from ancient China to modern England, from world revolution to contemporary slang.
language: English
title: Other Inquisitions, 1937-1952
titlecomplete: Other Inquisitions, 1937-1952
genres: Short Stories, Philosophy, Latin American, Spanish Literature, Nonfiction, Literature, Essays, Classics, Latin American Literature, Literary Criticism
ratings_count: 1608
series: Obras completas
publisher: University of Texas Press