A Universal History of Infamy (English and Spanish Edition)

Borges, Jorge Luis

E P Dutton, 1972

Stated First Edition. Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Light wear. Bookplate on front end page. Sticker removed from rear end page. Clean, unmarked pages. 146 p., 24 cm. 

"Ostensibly a series of factual accounts about the lives of noted scoundrels, the book in actuality marked the debut as Borges as a storyteller, using that unique blend of fact, fiction, and pseudo-scholarship that later came to full expression in Borges' world-famed short stories." - E.P. Dutton 

"Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges exerted a strong influence on the direction of literary fiction through his genre-bending metafictions, essays, and poetry. Borges was a founder, and principal practitioner, of postmodernist literature, a movement in which literature distances itself from life situations in favor of reflection on the creative process and critical self-examination. Widely read and profoundly erudite, Borges was a polymath who could discourse on the great literature of Europe and America and who assisted his translators as they brought his work into different languages." - Poetry Foundation