Jorge Luis Borges: A Life

by Emir Rodríguez Monegal

Book Overview

-Inscribed by the author "Para Edwardo, con...saludo cordial. [sig. ] NY 1983". This is the best Borges' biography I've read so far but, as usual, his biographers are not his best critics, and his... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0525137483
• ISBN13: 9780525137481
• Release Date: November 1978
• Publisher: Dutton Books
• Length: 502 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Best Borges Biography

This is the best Borges' biography I've read so far but, as usual, his biographers are not his best critics, and his life is better told by himself in a number of interviews and his own brief autobiography. Still, if you have to get one, get this one. The biographer died a few years earlier than the biographed, but the latest editions bring the chronology up to date. But yes, for a detailed "ending", you'll have to go somewhere else. Still, Borge's life happened more inside libraries and the books he read and wrote, than in the so called "real" world. So, read his books first.