This landmark collection brings together for the first time in any language all
of the sonnets of Jorge Luis Borges. More intimate and personally revealing than
his fiction, and more classical in form than the inventive metafictions that ar
e his hallmark, the sonnets reflect Borges in full maturity, paying homage to ma
ny of his literary and philosophical paragons-Cervantes, Milton, Whitman, Emerso
n, Joyce, Spinoza-while at the same time engaging the mysteries immanent in the
quotidian. A distinguished team of translators-Edith Grossman, Willis Barnstone,
John Updike, Mark Strand, Robert Fitzgerald, Alastair Reid, Charles Tomlinson,
and Stephen Kessler-lend their gifts to these sonnets, many of which appear here
in English for the first time, and all of which accompany their Spanish origina
ls on facing pages.
