| The Sonnets Contributor(s): Borges, Jorge Luis (Author), Levine, Suzanne Jill (Editor), Kessler, Stephen (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0143106015 ISBN-13: 9780143106012 Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group OUR PRICE: $19.00 Product Type: Paperback Published: March 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | Caribbean & Latin American - Literary Collections | Caribbean & Latin American - Literary Criticism | Poetry |
| Dewey: 861.62 |
| LCCN: 2010001306 |
| Series: Penguin Classics |
| Physical Information: 0.61" H x 6.43" W x 7.75" (0.50 lbs) 336 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Latin America |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The complete sonnets of one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century--in English and Spanish This landmark collection brings together for the first time in any language all of the sonnets of one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. More intimate and personally revealing than his fiction, and more classical in form than the inventive metafictions that are his hallmark, the sonnets reflect Borges in full maturity, paying homage to many of his literary and philosophical paragons--Cervantes, Milton, Whitman, Emerson, Joyce, Spinoza--while at the same time engaging the mysteries immanent in the quotidian. A distinguished team of translators--Edith Grossman, Willis Barnstone, John Updike, Mark Strand, Robert Fitzgerald, Alastair Reid, Charles Tomlinson, and Stephen Kessler--lend their gifts to these sonnets, many of which appear here in English for the first time, and all of which accompany their Spanish originals on facing pages. |