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ISBN-10: 0811221210
ISBN-13: 9780811221214
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publish Date: 06/26/2013
Dimensions: 8.90" L, 6.00" W, 0.60" H

Borges at Eighty: Conversations

Editor: Willis Barnstone

Paperback

Price: $18.95

Overview

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.”

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One of the collection's most interesting aspects is the interaction of these incompatible elements: the obvious pleasure Borges takes in the opportunity to present himself for public consumption, and his reflexive skepticism about the necessary fraudulence of the writer as personality... The man we see in these eleven interviews is a person made of books, a librarian who often remarked that his idea of paradise was an endless library – a sort of eternal busman's holiday.
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ISBN-10: 0811221210
ISBN-13: 9780811221214
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publish Date: 06/26/2013
Dimensions: 8.90" L, 6.00" W, 0.60" H
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