Doctor Brodie's Report

Jorge Luis Borges; Norman Thomas Di Giovanni [Translator]

E. P. Dutton, 1972

[Magical Realism] Second printing. Hardcover and dust jacket. Shelf wear. Stains to edges. Bookplate on front end page. 128 p., 24 cm. 

"Remarkable collection. In these days when so much nonselective, no-style fiction gluts the American market, the cool clarity of Borges' prose hits one like a shower bath in August. All have the rare touch of literary distinction." - Edward Weeks, The Atlantic 

"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