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Further reading: Kawabata reflects on his own work in his Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Japan, The Beautiful, and Myself tr. by Edward Seidensticker. See also Van C. Gessel, Three Modern Novelists: Soseki, Tanizaki, Kawabata; Gwenn Boardman Peterson's essay in The Moon in the Water: Understanding Tanizaki_y Kawabata, and Mishima.

Jorge Luнs Borges—Labyrinths'. New Directions; Dreamtigers: U. of Texas Press. Dutton issues The Aleph ir Other Stories, The Book of Imaginary Beings, and The Book of Sand. Evergreen has A Personal Anthology. The University of Texas Press offers Other Inquisitions. For his poetry, see Jorge Luis Borges: Selected Poems, tr. Di Giovanni (Dell).

Ana Maria Barrenechea, Borges: The Labyrinth Maker; Ronald Christ, The Narrow Act: Borges' Art of Illusion; Emir Rodriguez Monegal, Jorge Luis Borges: A Literary Biography; G.H. Bell- Villada, Borges and His Fiction: A Guide to His Mind and Art; M.S. Stabb,/orge Luis Borges.

Vladimir Nabokov—Lolita is in Medallion Books, and you may find it in the Capricorn series. McGraw-Hill has an annotated Lolita. Medallion Books offers Pale Fire. Speak, Memory is pub­lished by Pyramid. Penguin issues a useful Portable Nabokov. The Library of America has the major prose works in three volumes.

Further reading: Two interesting works by Andrew Field sup- plement each other: Nabokov: His Life in Art and Nabokov: His Life in Part. See also: Peter Quennell, ed., Nabokov: A Tribute; D.E. Morton, Vladimir Nabokov; J. Moynihan, Vladimir Nabokov.

George Orwell—Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four are both in New American Library, among others. Burmese Days is published by Harvest, which also offers five volumes of his Collected Essays, Journalism т- Letters, as well as an Orwell Reader with an introduction by R.H. Rovere.

Further reading: A good authorized biography is Bernard Crick's George Orwell: A Life. Perhaps the most penetrating short study is Lionel Trillings "George Orwell and the Politics of Truth," in his The Opposing Self Nine Essays in Criticism. An excellent two-volume treatment is by Peter Stansky and William Abrahams: The Unknown Orwell and Orwell: The Transformation. Various

points of view are represented in George Orwell: A Collection of Criticai Essays, ed. Raymond Williams.

R.K. Narayan—The English Teacher is published by U. Chicago Press. Most of his other Malgudi novйis and stories are available singly in Penguin.

Further reading: Narayans autobiography, My Days; and his essays, Criticai Perspectives, ed. A. L. McLeod. See also Mary Beatina, Narayan: A Study in Transcendence.

Samuel Beckett—Grove publishes ali of Beckett. His Collected Works so far extend to more than twenty-five volumes, which include of course the three recommended plays. Endgame also includes Act Without Words, and Krapp's Last Tape includes four shorter plays and "mimes." Three of Beckett's best-known novйis (Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable) are assembled in one vol­ume.