Translated by ruth l c simms (2 risultati)

Condizione: Book is fine. First thus. In The Bow and the Lyre Octavio Paz, one of the most important poets writing in Spanish, presents his sustained reflections on the poetic phenomenon and on the place of poetry in history and in our personal lives. It is written in the same prose style that distinguishes The Labyrinth of Solitude. And it will serve as an important complement to Paz's own poetry. Dust jacket is sturdy but spine is sunned. Chip at top of spine and one at bottom of spine. DJ overall Good plus condition. 8vo. 9-1/4" x 6-1/4". Blue cloth covered boards. Spine stamped in silver and black. 281 pp. including index. Translated by Ruth L. C. Simms (illustratore).…

Hardback. Condizione: As new. Condizione sovraccoperta: As new. First UK edition. First UK edition. 8vo. Pp. xviii, 205. Pale violet cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. Jacket design by Mike Hasted (priced £2.50 to inner flap). With an Epilogue and Index. Translated by Ruth L.C. Simms with an introduction by James Irby. Preceded by the 1964 University of Texas Press edition. Originally published in 1952 by Sur in Buenos Aires, as: Otras Inquisiciones. Considered Borges's best book of essays, it includes meditations on a proposed universal language, a justification of suicide, a refutation of time, the nature of dreams, and the intricacies of linguistic forms. Borges comments on Pascal, Coleridge, Cervantes, Hawthorne, Whitman, Valéry, Wilde, Shaw, and Kafka, while ranging in time, place, and subject from Omar Khayyam to Joseph Conrad, from ancient China to modern England, from world revolution to contemporary slang.…