Other Inquisitions 1937-1952

<p>This remarkable book by one of the great writers of the twentieth century 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 as Pascal Coleridge Cervantes Hawthorne Whitman Valéry 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.</p>