Selected non-fictions
A collection of writings includes essays, literary and film criticism, biographical sketches, and lectures
essays
xvi, 559 pages ; 25 cm
9780670849475, 0670849472
40660195
Part 1. Early writings 1922-1928. The nothingness of personality
After images
Joyce's Ulysses
A history of angels
Verbiage for poems
A profession of literary faith
Literary pleasure
An investigation of the world
Part 2. 1929-1936. The perpetual race of Achilles and the tortoise
The duration of hell
The superstitious ethics of the reader
Our inabilities
The postulation of reality
A defense of Basilides the false
The homeric versions
Narrative art and magic
A defense of the Kabbalah
The art of verbal abuse
The translators of The Thousand and One Nights
I, a Jew
The labyrinths of the detective story and Chesterton
The doctrine of cycles
A history of eternity
Film reviews and criticism. The cinematograph, the biograph
Films
Street Scene
King Kong
The informer
Two films (Crime and Punishment; The Thirty-nine steps)
The Petrified Forest
Wells, the visionary
Part 3. Writings for El Hogar (home) magazine 1936-1939. Ramon Llull's thinking machine
When fiction lives in fiction
Capsule biographies. Isaac Babel
Ernest Bramah
Benedetto Croce
Theodore Dreiser
T.S. Eliot
Will James
Liam O'Flaherty
Oswald Spengler
Paul Valery
S.S. Van Dine
Virginia Woolf
Book reviews and notes. Der Engel vom Westlichen Fenster / Gustav Meyrink
Private Opinion / Alan Pryce-Jones
The Pursuer / Louis Golding
Lord Halifax's Ghost Book
Absalom! Absalom! / William Faulkner
Gubben Kommer / Gustaf Janson
Essays and poems / Aldous Huxley
Collected poems and plays / Rabindranath Tagore
The Door Between / Ellery Queen
Personality Survives Death / Sir William Barrett
Chinese Fairy Tales and Folk Tales / Wolfram Eberhard, tr
The Literary Life: Marinetti
Excellent Intentions / Richard Hull
The Confessions of a Thug / Meadows Taylor
The unvanquished / William Faulkner
The tale of Genji / Lady Murasaki
Patches of Sunlight / Lord Dunsany
Two Fantasy Novels
The Literary Life: Oliver Gogarty
An English version of the oldest songs in the world
Of Course, Vitelli! / Alan Griffiths
A Grandiose Manifesto from Brenton
H.G. Wells' Latest Novel
Delphos, or the future of international language / E.S. Pankhurst
Joyce's latest novel
The Literary Life: The Dionne Quints
Part 4. 1937-1945. Notes on Germany and the war. A pedagogy of hatred
A disturbing exposition
An essay on neutrality
Definition of a Germanophile
1941
Two books
A comment on August 23, 1944
A note on the peace
The total library
Time and J.W. Dunne
A fragment on Joyce
The creation and P.H. Gosse
Circular time
John Wilkins' analytical language
On literary description
On William Beckford's Vathek
Coleridge's flower
Prolouges. The Invention of Morel / Adolfo Bioy Casares
Bartleby the Scrivener / Herman Melville
The abasement of the Northmores / Henry James
Book reviews. Mathematics and the imagination / Edward Kasner and James Newman
Rudyard Kipling: a study in literature and poltical ideas / Edward Shanks
Monkey / Arthur Waley
After death / Leslie Weatherhead
Film reviews and criticism. Two films (Sabotage; Los Muchachos de Antes)
An overwhelming film (Citizen Kane)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, transformed
Two films (Now Voyager; Nightmare)
On dubbing
Pat 5. Nine Dantesque essays 1945-195. Prolouge
The noble castle of the fourth canto
The false problem of Ugolino
The last voyage of Ulysses
The pitying torturer
Dante and the Anglo-Saxon visionaries
Purgatorio I,13
The simurgh and the eagle
The meeting in a dream
Beatrice's last smile
Part 6. 1946-1955. Our poor individualism
The paradox of Apollinaire
On Oscar Wilde
A new refutation of time
Biathanatos
From allegories to novels
From someone to nobody
The wall and the books
Personality and the Buddha
Pascal's sphere
The innocence of Layamon
On the cult of the books
Kafka and his precursors
The enigma of Edward FitzGerald
Coleridge's dream
Forms of a legend
The Scandinavian destiny
The dialouges of Ascetic and King
A defense of Bouvard and Pecuchet
Flaubert and his exemplary destiny
A history of the tango
A history of the echoes of a name
L'illusion comique
Prolouges. The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Sketches / Bret Harte
On heroes, hero-worship and the heroic in history / Thomas Carlyle
Representative men / Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Martian Chronicles / Ray Bradbury
Lectures. The Argentine writer and tradition
German literature in the age of Bach
Part 7. Dictations 1956-1986. Prolouges. The Kappa / Ryunosuke Akutagawa
Pages of history and autobiography / Edward Gibbon
Books from Spain / Catalog of the exhibition
Leaves of grass / Walt Whitman
Mystical works / Emanuel Swedenborg
Lectures. The concept of an academy and the Celts
The enigma of Shakespeare
Blindness
Immortality
The detective story
Prolouges to The Library of Babel. The Library of Babel
The Vulture / Franz Kafka
The Concentric Deaths / Jack London
The Guest at the Last Banquets / Villiers de l'Isle-Adam
The Tiger Guest / P'u Sung-ling
Scientific Romances / Charles Howard Hinton
Prolouges to A Personal Library. A Personal Library
Prolouge to the collection
Stories / Julio Cortazar
The apocryphal gospels
The time machine; the invisible man / H.G. Wells
Demons / Fyodor Dostoevsky
The theory of the leisure class / Thorstein Veblen
Fear and trembling / Soren Kierkegaard
The aeneid / Virgil
Varieties of religious experience; the study of human nature / William James