Borges at Eighty
Conversations
Will be published approx. on 26. July 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
192 pages
978-0-8112-2121-4 (ISBN)
Description
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."
Reviews / Votes
"One of the collection's most interesting aspects is the interaction of these incompatible elements: the obvious pleasure Borges takes in the opportunity to present himself for public consumption, and his reflexive skepticism about the necessary fraudulence of the writer as personality... The man we see in these eleven interviews is a person made of books, a librarian who often remarked that his idea of paradise was an endless library - a sort of eternal busman's holiday."More details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Illustrations
8 Black and white photographs
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
268 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8112-2121-4 (9780811221214)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Jorge Luis Borges (1890-1982), Argentine poet, critic, and short-story writer, revolutionized modern literature. He was completely blind when appointed the head of Argentina's National Library. Willis Barnstone, professor, poet, and scholar, is the author of eighty volumes, including The Restored New Testament, The Gnostic Bible, The Poems of Jesus Christ, The Poetics of Translation, and Mexico in My Heart: New and Selected Poems. He lives in Oakland, California, and Paris.