Jorge Luis Borges & Norman Thomas di Giovanni - The Complete Works in PDF

Great thanks to the original creator of these ebooks.

Here are his words:

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This is part of a series of ebook conversions from print editions of the Norman Thomas di Giovanni translations of Jorge Luis Borges' books. Borges and di Giovanni worked in collaboration on the translations, enjoying a long and fruitful working relationship and friendship that resulted in a series of translations that captured the original Spanish intentions of Borges and that provided an additional dimension to the English translations with the help of di Giovanni. Borges, who spoke English fluently, said with characteristic humility that he had too much respect for the English language to translate the books himself.

Because of the amount of work involved on the part of di Giovanni, sometimes including working on the English translations of the stories at the same time as the Spanish was being written, Borges granted him a unique royalty arrangement where proceeds would be split between the two evenly.

On Borges' death, his estate was passed onto his wife of only a few months, Maria Kodama. Kodama reneged on the original deal struck by Borges and di Giovanni, barred publication of the di Giovanni translations and took a series of legal actions to prevent the translations being sold. She commissioned new translations by Andrew Hurley so the bulk of the money could go to Borges' estate - or, more bluntly, to her. Hurley's translations are deficient in a number of respects; but the area in which they lack most is that Hurley was not, like di Giovanni, a friend and colleague of Borges with an insight into his life or the ability to check the final translations with Borges.

These ebooks have been created with the aim of preserving the original translations di Giovanni was involved in. Unfortunately, because the books are old and in some cases library books, it was not possible to just simply use the images, as imperfections in the scans and sometimes considerable marks on the pages meant that they would not be legible. The decision was taken to create streamlined, smaller PDFs using text only.

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List of titles:
Jorge Luis Borges translated by Norman Thomas di Giovanni - A Universal History of Infamy
Jorge Luis Borges translated by Norman Thomas di Giovanni - Doctor Brodie's Report
Jorge Luis Borges edited by Norman Thomas di Giovanni (various translators) - Selected Poems 1923 - 1967
Jorge Luis Borges translated by Norman Thomas di Giovanni - The Congress
Jorge Luis Borges translated by Norman Thomas di Giovanni - The Book of Imaginary Beings
Jorge Luis Borges translated by Norman Thomas di Giovanni - Evaristo Carriego: A Book About Old Time Buenos Aires
Jorge Luis Borges & Adolfo Bioy-Casares translated by Norman Thomas di Giovanni - The Chronicles of Bustos Domecq
Jorge Luis Borges edited by Norman Thomas di Giovanni, Daniel Halpern and Frank MacShane - Borges on Writing
Jorge Luis Borges translated by Norman Thomas di Giovanni - In Praise of Darkness
Jorge Luis Borges & Adolfo Bioy-Casares translated by Norman Thomas di Giovanni - Six Problems for Don Isidro Parodi
Jorge Luis Borges translated by Norman Thomas di Giovanni and Alastair Reid - The Book of Sand/The Gold of the Tigers
Jorge Luis Borges translated by Norman Thomas di Giovanni - The Aleph and Other Stories 1933-1969