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Though celebrated in the English-speaking world for his poetry and fiction, Borges is equally revered in Latin America for his non-fiction. Now more than 150 of his most brilliant pieces, most of which have never appeared in English before, are brought together for the first time.Learned, lively and endlessly curious, this sparkling collection sees Borges move effortlessly between subjects as diverse as Schopenhauer, angels, Alfred Hitchcock, Oscar Wilde, King Kong, Buddh ism, Nazi propaganda and the History of the Tango, and includes his acclaimed essays on Dante.