Other Inquisitions 1937–52

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.

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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.