
Seven Nights
Jorge Luis Borges(Author)
New Directions Publishing Corporation
2nd Edition
Published on 21. August 2009
Book
Paperback/Softback
128 pages
978-0-8112-1838-2 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Edition
Revised Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Edition type
Revised edition
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 132 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
130 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8112-1838-2 (9780811218382)
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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. Eliot Weinberger's books of literary essays include Karmic Traces, An Elemental Thing, The Ghosts of Birds, and Angels & Saints. His political writings are collected in What I Heard About Iraq and What Happened Here: Bush Chronicles. The author of a study of Chinese poetry translation, 19 Ways of Looking at Wang Wei, he is a translator of the poetry of Bei Dao and the editor of The New Directions Anthology of Classical Chinese Poetry. He was formerly the general editor of the series Calligrams: Writings from and on China and the literary editor of the Murty Classical Library of India. Among his many translations of Latin American poetry and prose are The Poems of Octavio Paz, Paz's In Light of India, Vicente Huidobro's Altazor, Xavier Villaurrutia's Nostalgia for Death, and Jorge Luis Borges' Seven Nights and Selected Non-Fictions. He has been publishing with New Directions since 1975. Poet and translator Alastair Reid lives in New York City.