{"product_id":"other-inquisitions-1937-1952-paperback-softback-9780292760028","title":"Other Inquisitions, 1937-1952 (Paperback \/ softback) 9780292760028","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eOther Inquisitions, 1937-1952\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJorge Luis Borges (Author), Ruth L.C. Simms (Translated by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780292760028\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 January 1964\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e223 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.254 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Introduction \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The Wall and the Books \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Pascal's Sphere \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The Flower of Coleridge \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The Dream of Coleridge \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Time and J. W. Dunne \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The Creation and P. H. Gosse \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Dr. AmÉ\u003cbr\u003erico Castro is Alarmed \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e A Note on Carriego \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Our Poor Individualism \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Quevedo \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Partial Enchantments of the \u003ci\u003eQuixote\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Nathaniel Hawthorne \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Note on Walt Whitman \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e ValÉ\u003cbr\u003ery as a Symbol \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The Enigma of Edward FitzGerald \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e About Oscar Wilde \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e On Chesterton \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The First Wells \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The \u003ci\u003eBiathanatos\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Pascal \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The Meeting in a Dream \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The Analytical Language of John Wilkins \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Kafka and his Precursors \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Avatars of the Tortoise \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e On the Cult of Books \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The Nightingale of Keats \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The Mirror of the Enigmas \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Two Books \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e A Comment on August 23, 1944 \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e About William Beckford's \u003ci\u003eVathek\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e About \u003ci\u003eThe Purple Land\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e From Someone to Nobody \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Forms of a Legend \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e From Allegories to Novels \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The Innocence of Layamon \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e For Bernard Shaw \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The Modesty of History \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e New Refutation of Time \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Epilogue \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Index \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46691432071448,"sku":"9780292760028","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/other-inquisitions-1937-1952-paperback-softback-9780292760028","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}