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Borges: A Reader

by Jorge Luis Borges, Emir Rodriguez Monegal · 1981

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This book includes a number of earlier pieces never before translated, and moves through his more fantastic work to a later realism.

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20th century20th centuryMore like thisLess of this
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biographybiographyMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
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medium · 368 pages
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poetrypoetryMore like thisLess of thisshort storiesshort storiesMore like thisLess of thisessaysessaysMore like thisLess of this

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