Ensayos completos

The nine books collected in this volume —Inquisitions, The Size of My Hope, The Language of the Argentinians, Evaristo Carriego, Discussion, A History of Eternity, Other Inquisitions, Seven Nights, and Nine Dantean Essays— trace Borges's trajectory as an essayist who transforms criticism into a form of creation and erudition into art. They unfold his principal intellectual concerns: the nature of time, infinity, identity, reading, and literary tradition. The breadth of his interests and the originality of his discoveries transformed the essay into one of the most personal forms of his work and allow us to follow the evolution of his thought: from avant-garde fervor to lucid skepticism. Borges makes reading a form of discovery and the essay a practice of imaginative intelligence.