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A PERSONAL ANTHOLOGY by Jorge Luis Borges. 210 pages. Grove Press. $5.
Argentina has no national literature, but it has produced a literary mind that is as mysterious and elusive as the fretted shadows on the moonlit grass. He is Jorge Luis Borges, 67, who has been hailed in his own country as the greatest living writer in Spanish, though only a...
Sir: You say that Harper's Bazaar "has become less literary and more topical" [Feb. 24]. Yet among the authors appearing since Nancy White became the editor in chief are Cyril Connolly, Jean Genet, Robert Musil, W. H. Auden, Theodore Roethke, Evelyn Waugh, Eugene Ionesco, Nathalie Sarraute, Robert Lowell...
One class is required to reread chestnuts like The Scarlet Letter or Huckleberry Finn. But obscure writers like Rilke and Jose Luis Borges also get assigned. Robert Crunden has chosen ten books on Woodrow Wilson and the Victorian period to illustrate styles of historical writing for his Expository Writing 103...
Novelist Carter Wilson's section, "Exposition and Narration" floats in what one Cliffie member calls an "atmosphere of creativeness." This week's two-hour meeting was spent on short stories by Borges, and Eliot, Berkeley, Joyce, Faulkner and Brecht all managed to creep into the discussion.