Borges at Eighty: Conversations

Borges at Eighty: Conversations PDF Author: Jorge Luis Borges
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 0811223248
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 171

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Book Description
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.”