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,
“... pretty quickly on the reader of Borges’s collected sonnets, and even creeps up in the course of Stephen Kessler’s introduction to the volume. Here we learn first that Borges the poet is ‘quite a different writer from the one we thought we knew’; then that he is ‘earnest’ in his poems and ‘less ironic’ than in his fiction; that he is ‘a ... ”
