Jorge Luis Borges: Conversations

Borges, Jorge Luis

ISBN 10: 1578060761 / ISBN 13: 9781578060764

Published by University Press of Mississippi, 1998

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Synopsis:

Jorge Luis Borges, one of the indisputably great writers of the twentieth century, was born in Buenos Aires in 1899. Never having been awarded the Nobel Prize, which his readers worldwide believed he deserved, this story writer, poet, essayist, and man of letters died at age eighty-six. This anthology of interviews with him features more than a dozen conversations that cover all phases of his life and work. He discusses his blindness, his family and childhood, early travels, literary friends, and struggles to find his literary identity. In depth he examines the meanings and intentions of his own famous stories and poems, and he speaks of the writers whose works he has loved - Dante, Cervantes, Emerson, Dickinson, H. G. Wells, Kafka, Stevenson, Kipling, Whitman, Frost, and Faulkner - and of those whom he disliked, such as Hemingway and Lorca. Borges expresses his contempt for Peron and assesses the tumultuous politics of Argentina. He speaks also of the imagination as a type of dreaming, about issues of collaboration and translation, about philosophy, and about time.

About the Author: Richard Burgin's books include the story collections Feat of Blue Skies, Private Fame, and Man without Memory. In his first book on Borges, Conversations with Jorge Luis Borges, he was the sole interviewer. Burgin is the editor of Boulevard magazine and an associate professor of communication and English at Saint Louis University.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Jorge Luis Borges: Conversations
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Publication Date: 1998
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Fair
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket