Borges At Eighty

Author : Jorge Luis Borges
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780811223249

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Borges at Eighty: Conversations by Jorge Luis Borges Pdf

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 : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:311632656

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Borges at Eighty by Jorge Luis Borges Pdf

Author : Jorge Luis Borges
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-31
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780811218757

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Professor Borges: A Course on English Literature by Jorge Luis Borges Pdf

A compilation of the twenty-five lectures Borges gave in 1966 at the University of Buenos Aires, where he taught English literature.

Author : Jorge Luis Borges
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0811218384

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Seven Nights by Jorge Luis Borges Pdf

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,Osvaldo Ferrari
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Authors, Argentine
ISBN : 0857421883

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Conversations by Jorge Luis Borges,Osvaldo Ferrari Pdf

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 : New Directions Publishing
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0811214001

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Everything and Nothing by Jorge Luis Borges Pdf

"Some of the most witty, uncannily original short fiction in Western Literature."--The New Yorker

Author : Willis Barnstone
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0252068637

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With Borges on an Ordinary Evening in Buenos Aires by Willis Barnstone Pdf

Combining spirited and philosophical conversations, biographical anecdotes, citations from poetry, and literary analysis, this is a poignant portrait of Jorge Luis Borges in his later years. It presents the poet-storyteller as a figure of paradox and contradictions.

Author : Paul Theroux
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-11-18
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780547524009

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The Old Patagonian Express by Paul Theroux Pdf

The acclaimed travel writer journeys by train across the Americas from Boston to Patagonia in this international bestselling travel memoir. Starting with a rush-hour subway ride to South Station in Boston to catch the Lake Shore Limited to Chicago, Paul Theroux takes a grand railway adventure first across the United States and then south through Mexico, Central America, and across the Andes until he winds up on the meandering Old Patagonian Express steam engine. His epic commute finally comes to a halt in a desolate land of cracked hills and thorn bushes that reaches toward Antarctica. Along the way, Theroux demonstrates how train travel can reveal “"the social miseries and scenic splendors” of a continent. And through his perceptive prose we learn that what matters most are the people he meets along the way, including the monologuing Mr. Thornberry in Costa Rica, the bogus priest of Cali, and the blind Jorge Luis Borges, who delights in having Theroux read Robert Louis Stevenson to him.

Author : Jorge Luis Borges
Publisher : Pocket Paragon
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015049977229

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The Library of Babel by Jorge Luis Borges Pdf

"Not many living artists would be sufficiently brave or inspired to attempt reflecting in art what Borges constructs in words. But the detailed, evocative etchings by Erik Desmazieres provide a perfect counterpoint to the visionary prose. Like Borges, Desmazieres has created his own universe, his own definition of the meaning, topography and geography of the Library of Babel. Printed together, with the etchings reproduced in fine-line duotone, text and art unite to present an artist's book that belongs in the circle of Borges's sacrosanct Crimson Hexagon - "books smaller than natural books, books omnipotent, illustrated, and magical.""--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : Jay Parini
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781984899491

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Borges and Me by Jay Parini Pdf

In this evocative work of what the author in his afterword calls “a kindof novelistic memoir,” Jay Parini takes us back fifty years, when he fled the United States for Scotland—in flight from the Vietnam War and desperately in search of his adult life. There, through unlikely circumstances, he meets the famed Argentinian author Jorge Luis Borges. Borges—visiting his translator in Scotland—is in his seventies, blind and frail. When Borges hears that Parini owns a 1957 Morris Minor, he declares a long-held wish to visit the Highlands, where he hopes to meet a man in Inverness who is interested in Anglo-Saxon riddles. As they travel, stopping at various sites of historical interest, the charmingly garrulous Borges takes Parini on a grand tour of Western literature and ideas, while promising to teach him about love and poetry. As Borges’s idiosyncratic world of labyrinths, mirrors, and doubles shimmers into being, their escapades take a surreal turn. Borges and Me is a classic road novel, based on true events. It’s also a magical mystery tour of an era, like our own, in which uncertainties abound, and when—as ever—it’s the young and the old who hear voices and dream dreams.

Author : Jorge Luis Borges
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1578060761

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Jorge Luis Borges by Jorge Luis Borges Pdf

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 : 292 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0811200124

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Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges Pdf

Forty short stories and essays have been selected as representative of the Argentine writer's metaphysical narratives.

Author : Jorge Luis Borges
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Authors, Argentine
ISBN : 1578060761

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Jorge Luis Borges by Jorge Luis Borges Pdf

This anthology of interviews with Borges features more than a dozen conversations that cover all phases of his life and work.

Author : Richard Burgin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:603080674

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Conversations with Jorge Luis Borges by Richard Burgin Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 081121396X

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To Touch the Sky by Anonim Pdf

To Touch the Sky contains Willis Barnstone's translations of some of the most inspiring writing of world literature: ten mystical and spiritual poets spanning three thousand years.