Invisible Work

by Efraín Kristal

Book Overview

It is well known that Jorge Luis Borges was a translator, but this has been considered a curious minor aspect of his literary achievement. Few have been aware of the number of texts he translated, the importance he attached to this activity, or the extent to which the translated works inform his own stories and poems.

Between the age of ten, when he translated Oscar Wilde, and the end of his life, when he prepared a Spanish version of the Prose...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826514081
• ISBN13: 9780826514080
• Release Date: May 2002
• Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.4"