The Narrow Act
Subtitle: Borges' Art of Allusion
Edition: Rev Sub edition
Publisher: Lumen Books/Sites Books
Published: January 1995
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780930829346
Subjects: Literary Criticism; Borges, Jorge Luis - Prose & Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Caribbean & Latin American; Literary Criticism & Collections / Essays; 1899-; Allusions in literature; Borges, Jorge Luis,; Knowledge and learning
First sentence: Coming upon a story by Borges in an anthology or in a magazine, or merely picking up one of his collections and reading a single story, the reader is likely to be puzzled; perhaps fascinated or irritated, but almost certainly puzzled.