Everything and Nothing
Selected Short Stories
Translated by Donald A. Yates, James E. Irby, John M.Fein, and Eliot Weinberger / Intoroduction by Donald A. Yates
Celebrating the centennial of his birth, Everything
and Nothing compiles the finest fictions by Jorge Luise Borges, "a
giant of world literature". Some of the narrative pieces herin contained
are: "Pierre Menard" in which a modernwriter reconstructs passages
from Don Quixote that are verbally identical but read differantly; "The
Garden of Forking Paths," an intellectural varation on the detective
story; "Nightmare," a leture which, as Alastair Reid puts it,
"shifts from personal memories to writers, to an examination of other
peoples' metaphors, to language itself." Everything and Nothing serves
as a perfect introduction to Borges'sgenius: "Some of the most witty,
uncannily original short fiction in Western Literature." (George
Steiner, The New Yorker)