The complete sonnets of one of the greatest writers of the twentieth
century--in English and Spanish
This landmark collection brings together for the first time in any
language all of the sonnets of one of the greatest writers of the
twentieth century. More intimate and personally revealing than his
fiction, and more classical in form than the inventive metafictions that
are his hallmark, the sonnets reflect Borges in full maturity, paying
homage to many of his literary and philosophical paragons--Cervantes,
Milton, Whitman, Emerson, Joyce, Spinoza--while at the same time
engaging the mysteries immanent in the quotidian.
A distinguished team of translators--Edith Grossman, Willis Barnstone,
John Updike, Mark Strand, Robert Fitzgerald, Alastair Reid, Charles
Tomlinson, and Stephen Kessler--lend their gifts to these sonnets, many
of which appear here in English for the first time, and all of which
accompany their Spanish originals on facing pages.