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A collection of interviews now available from New Directions for the first time
Author : Jorge Luis Borges
Publisher : New Directions Publishing Corporation
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 36,24 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780811221214
A collection of interviews now available from New Directions for the first time
Author : Jorge Luis Borges
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 20,52 MB
Release : 2013-06-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0811223248
A collection of interviews now available from New Directions for the first time The words of a genius: Borges at Eighty transcends our expectations of ordinary conversation. In these interviews with Barnstone, Dick Cavett, and Alastair Reid, Borges touches on favorite writers (Whitman, Poe, Emerson) and familiar themes — labyrinths, mystic experiences, and death — and always with great, throw-away humor. For example, discussing nightmares, he concludes,“When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself.”
Author : Jorge Luis Borges
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 37,44 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Authors, Argentine
ISBN : 9780857421883
Jorge Luis Borges, Argentina s master fabulist, was also an extraordinary conversationalist. There s not a subject he doesn t throw surprising new light on, whether it s to do with Kipling or tango. In fact, there s an impish element in his thinking. In these dialogues with a receptive Osvaldo Ferrari, he covers Buddhism, love, Henry James, Dante and much more as he circles round and digresses at whim. One cannot be sure where the 84-year-old blind man s wit will lead him, except that it s his form of freedom. Even if he s covered the subject before, this time round there s a new flash of insight. He s an optimist. There s always more to say. As with his written work as a whole, these dialogues configure a loose autobiography of a subtle, teasing mind. Looking back on his long life, it s no surprise that time and dreaming become topics, but these dialogues are not a memoir for all time is now. As in his tale The Other, where two Borges meet up on a bench beside the river Charles, we have a dialogue between a young poet and the elder teller of tales where all experience floats in a frightening miracle that defies linear time."
Author : Jorge Luis Borges
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 33,35 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781578060764
This anthology of interviews with Borges features more than a dozen conversations that cover all phases of his life and work.
Author : Jorge Luis Borges
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 28,18 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780811218382
The incomparable Borges delivered these seven lectures in Buenos Aires in 1977; attendees were treated to Borges' erudition on the following topics: Dante's The Divine Comedy, Nightmares, Thousand and One Dreams, Buddhism, Poetry, The Kabbalah, and Blindness.
Author : Jorge Luis Borges
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 19,28 MB
Release : 2013-07-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0811221172
In English at last, Borges’s erudite and entertaining lectures on English literature from Beowulf to Oscar Wilde Writing for Harper’s Magazine, Edgardo Krebs describes Professor Borges:“A compilation of the twenty-five lectures Borges gave in 1966 at the University of Buenos Aires, where he taught English literature. Starting with the Vikings’ kennings and Beowulf and ending with Stevenson and Oscar Wilde, the book traverses a landscape of ‘precursors,’cross-cultural borrowings, and genres of expression, all connected by Borges into a vast interpretive web. This is the most surprising and useful of Borges’s works to have appeared posthumously.” Borges takes us on a startling, idiosyncratic, fresh, and highly opinionated tour of English literature, weaving together countless cultural traditions of the last three thousand years. Borges’s lectures — delivered extempore by a man of extraordinary erudition — bring the canon to remarkably vivid life. Now translated into English for the first time, these lectures are accompanied by extensive and informative notes by the Borges scholars Martín Arias and Martín Hadis.
Author : Jorge Luis Borges
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 43,64 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811214001
"Some of the most witty, uncannily original short fiction in Western Literature."--The New Yorker
Author : Richard Burgin
Publisher :
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 10,93 MB
Release : 1969
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Author : Jorge Luis Borges
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 46,40 MB
Release : 1964
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811200127
Forty short stories and essays have been selected as representative of the Argentine writer's metaphysical narratives.
Author : Jorge Luis Borges
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 22,35 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780857424235
Recorded during Borges' final years, this third volume of his conversations with Osvaldo Ferrari offers a rare glimpse into the life and work of Argentina's master writer and favourite conversationalist.