Borges On Writing In 1971, Jorge Luis Borges was invited to preside over a series of seminars on his writing at Columbia University. This book is a record of those seminars, which took the form of informal discussions between Borges, Norman Thomas di Giovanni--his editor and translator, Frank MacShane--then head of the writing program at Columbia, and the students. Borges's p...(展开全部)

Modern culture has founded itself on drugs. Beyond their psychoactive effects, they have shaped some of the modern era's most fundamental philosophies and even helped expose the neurochemistry of the human brain. This examination of writing on drugs, including Coleridge on opium, Michaux on mescaline, Freud on cocaine and Burroughs on everything, is an exploration of the profou...(展开全部)

Edwin Williamson's major new biography is the first in any language to encompass the entire span of Jorge Luis Borges's life and work. Drawing upon previously unknown or unavailable sources, it brings out the human side of Borges: his roots in Argentina, the evolution of his political ideas, his relations with family and friends, the conflicts, desires, and obsessions that drov...(展开全部)

阿道夫•比奥伊•卡萨雷斯（1914—1999），阿根廷著名作家，出生于布宜诺斯艾利斯，被誉为二十世纪伟大的西班牙语作家。1940年，比奥伊•卡萨雷斯创作了《莫雷尔的发明》，博尔赫斯亲自作序推荐，称其可用“完美”二字评价。小说出版后获得多项文学大奖，包括布宜诺斯艾利斯文学奖等。1981年，比奥伊•卡萨雷斯获颁法国骑士勋章，1990年获得西语文学崇高荣誉奖项塞万提斯奖。授奖词称比奥伊•卡萨雷斯的作品“通过完美的叙事结构，将现实与幻想天衣无缝地融合在一起。”

What is the role of the writer? Prophet? High Priest of Art? Court Jester? Or witness to the real world? Looking back on her own childhood and the development of her writing career, Margaret Atwood examines the metaphors which writers of fiction and poetry have used to explain – or excuse! – their activities, looking at what costumes they have seen fit to assume, what roles the...(展开全部)

What is the role of the writer? Prophet? High Priest of Art? Court Jester? Or witness to the real world? Looking back on her own childhood and the development of her writing career, Margaret Atwood examines the metaphors which writers of fiction and poetry have used to explain – or excuse! – their activities, looking at what costumes they have seen fit to assume, what roles the...(展开全部)

阿尔维托•曼古埃尔（Alberto Manguel），1948年生于布宜诺斯艾利斯，1982年移居加拿大后成为加拿大公民，目前定居法国。他是一位文集编纂者、翻译家、散文家、小说家、编辑，在国际间享有盛名，著作有《阅读史》《夜晚的书斋》《恋爱中的博尔赫斯》《想象地名私人词典》等。

<br />"This delightful book provides readers a key to more than one secret room of Borges's magical worlds."-Mahmoud Darwish <br /><br />"Alberto Manguel is to reading what Casanova was to sex."-<em>Scotland on Sunday</em><br /><br />"His stories about Borges . . . [are] wrapped in luminous poetry."-<em>The Toronto Star</em><br /><br />Winner of the 2003 Prix du livre en Poitou...(展开全部)

阿尔维托•曼古埃尔（Alberto Manguel），1948年生于布宜诺斯艾利斯，1982年移居加拿大后成为加拿大公民，目前定居法国。他是一位文集编纂者、翻译家、散文家、小说家、编辑，在国际间享有盛名，著作有《阅读史》《夜晚的书斋》《恋爱中的博尔赫斯》《想象地名私人词典》等。

<br />"This delightful book provides readers a key to more than one secret room of Borges's magical worlds."-Mahmoud Darwish <br /><br />"Alberto Manguel is to reading what Casanova was to sex."-<em>Scotland on Sunday</em><br /><br />"His stories about Borges . . . [are] wrapped in luminous poetry."-<em>The Toronto Star</em><br /><br />Winner of the 2003 Prix du livre en Poitou...(展开全部)