Volume 48, Number 7 · April 26, 2001
Borges and His Ghosts
By Tim Parks
Selected Non-Fictions
Jorge Luis Borges, edited by Eliot Weinberger, translated by Esther Allen, Suzanne Jill Levine, and Eliot Weinberger
Penguin, 560 pp., $17.00 (paper)
'Romantic ego-worship and loudmouthed individualism are...wreaking havoc on the arts,' announces the twenty-three-year-old Jorge Luis Borges in the essay that opens Selected Non-Fictions, a remarkable new compendium of his writings, two thirds of which have never been published in English before. 'The Nothingness of Personality,' this first piece is called. It was written in 1922. In a bold polemical spirit the young Argentinian declares: 'The self does not exist.'
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