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Borges at Eighty : Conversations by Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-; Barnstone, Willis, 1927- is a biography available to read on EtoBox.

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The works of the great Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges almost defy classification. His stories often read like thoughtful essays, his essays like poems, and his poems like brief narrations. Borges in conversation similarly transcends and transmutes our expectations of the ordinary colloquy. In the wide-ranging dialogues presented in this volume, the author's thoughts are evoked through the perceptive questioning of Willis Barnstone, John Coleman, Alastair Reid, Dick Cavett, and others. The resulting interplay between Borges and his interview2ers makes fascinating reading, revealing him as perhaps the premier conversationalist of our time. Borges chats intimately with his audience. "A crowd is an illusion... I am talking to you personally," he tells one group. Candor, wit, and humorous self-disparagement mark his responses, as do the Socratic qualities of profound yet amusing meditation and retort. "When I wake up," he informs us, "I wake to something worse. It's the astonishment of being myself." With the haunting resonance and structure of a fugue, the pervasive themes of Borges' works (or "exercises" as he chooses to call them) are woven throughout these evocative conversation

Who reads Borges at Eighty : Conversations?

Author

Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-; Barnstone, Willis, 1927-

Publisher

Bloomington: Indiana University Press

Published

1982

Language

EN

ISBN

9780253166265

Category

biography

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Romance, Memoir

Rating

4.27 / 5 (49 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14