Re: Two meanings

Tristan McLeay wrote at 2003-11-08 04:12:34 (-0500)
 >
 > Yes, which is how I found 'The Zahir'; Googling for the other two only
 > turned up that page (i.e. 'The Library of Babel'; with Google's suggested
 > spelling of Casares, it seems that Adolfo Bioy Casares is another
 > Argentine author, but I can't find anything in the results).
 >
From an endnote to _Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius_ in Andrew Hurley's
translation:

 | Adolfo Bioy Casares (1914- ): Argentine novelist, JLB's closest
 | friend and collaborator with JLB on numerous projects, including
 | some signed with joint pseudonyms.  In their joint productions, the
 | two men were interested in detective stories, innovative narrative
 | tecniques (as the text here hints), and tales of a somewhat
 | "fantastic" nature.  Unfortunately rather eclipsed by Borges,
 | especially in the English-speaking world, Bioy Casares is a major
 | literary figure with a distinguished body of work; a description of
 | the reciprocal influenco of the two writers would require (at
 | least) its own book-length study.

Just in case you were wondering.

 > > and maybe "Pierre Menard, Author of 'Don Quijote'" but
 > > everything of JLB is worth reading and rereading many times.
 >
 > Google is unhelpful here; I guess I'll have to find myself a decent
 > library :)
 >

The moset complete collection of Borges's short fiction in English is
probably Hurley's _Collected Fictions_ (ISBN:0-14-028680-2).  It
doesn't contain the two linked essays - they may be in the sister
volume _Selected Non-Fictions_ (various translators,
ISBN:0-14-029011-7).  Notes on these and other volumes may be found
here: http://www.themodernword.com/borges/borges_works1.html

I can't find _Pierre Menard..._ online either, but you can read _Tlön,
Uqbar, Orbis Tertius_ if you haven't already:
http://www.its.caltech.edu/~boozer/etexts/tlon.html

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