| Title : | The perpetual race of Achilles and the tortoise |
| Material Type: | printed text |
| Authors: | Jorge Luis Borges, Author |
| Publisher: | England : Penguin Books |
| Publication Date: | 2010 |
| Pagination: | vi, 126 p. |
| Size: | 18 cm |
| ISBN (or other code): | 978-0-14-119294-9 |
| Languages : | English (eng) Original Language : English (eng) |
| Descriptors: | Borges, Jorge Luis, - 1899-1986 - Translations into English
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| Class number: | 864.62 |
| Abstract: | In this collection of wise, witty and fascinating essays, Borges discusses the existence (or non-existence) of Hell, the flaws in English literary detectives, the philosophy of contradictions, and the many translators of 1001 nights. Varied and enthralling, these pieces examine the very nature of our lives, from cinema and books to history and religion. |
| Contents note: | The perpetual race of Achilles and the Tortoise; The duration of hell; A defense of Basilides the false; The translators of the thousand and one nights; The labyrinths of the detective story and Chesterton; Two films (crime and punishment and the thirty-nine steps); Joyce's latest novel; A pedagogy of hatred; A comment on august 23rd, 1944; On William Beckford's vathek; An overwhelming film (citizen kane); Our poor individualism; on Oscar Wilde; The wall and the book; The innocence of Layamon; Coleridge's dream; The enigma of Shakespeare; Blindness; |
| Record link: | https://library.seeu.edu.mk/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=17583 |
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