Prologues, with a prologue of prologues

A selection of various forewords written by Jorge Luis Borges from 1924 to 1974. The book collects dozens of texts scattered in different editions that belong to this special genre, in which Borges also showed his master class. In this volume, among many other literary avatars, found their echo "the smoke and fire of Carlyle, the father of Nazism, the stories of Cervantes, who has not yet left the dream of the second Don Quixote, the genius myth of Facundo, the powerful continental voice of Walt Whitman, the pleasant tricks of Paul Valéry, the oneiric Lewis Carroll's chess game, Kafka's Eleian descents, Swedenborg's real heavens, Macbeth's noise and fury, Macedonio Fernandez's smiling mysticism and Almafuerte's desperate mysticism."