Download or read book Everything and Nothing (New Directions Pearls) written by Jorge Luis Borges and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2010-05-25 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pocket-sized Pearls edition of some of Borges’ best fictions and essays. Everything and Nothing collects the best of Borges’ highly influential work—written in the 1930s and ‘40s—that foresaw the internet (“Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius”), quantum mechanics (“The Garden of Forking Paths”), and cloning (“Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote”). David Foster Wallace described Borges as “scalp-crinkling . . . Borges’ work is designed primarily as metaphysical arguments...to transcend individual consciousness.”