With Borges on an Ordinary Evening in Buenos Aires

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With Borges on an Ordinary Evening in Buenos Aires

Author	: Willis Barnstone
File Size	: 48,8 Mb
Publisher	: University of Illinois Press
Language	: English
Release Date	: 15 June 2024
ISBN	: 0252068637
Pages	: 218 pages

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With Borges on an Ordinary Evening in Buenos Aires by Willis Barnstone Book PDF Summary

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.

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

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Seven Nights by Jorge Luis Borges

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.

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Jorge Luis Borges by Jason Wilson

"The face of Borges most widely known is that of the blind, patrician man of letters in whose writings emotion is subjected to the play of ideas. Yet Borges, born in Buenos Aires in 1899, did not become virtually blind until the 1950s, and in the decades before this affliction and

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Borges at Eighty Conversations by Jorge Luis Borges

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

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Borges and His Fiction by Gene H. Bell-Villada

The acclaimed author of García Márquez delivers “a compulsively readable account of the life and works of our greatest . . . writer of fantasy” (New York Daily News). Since its first publication in 1981, Borges and His Fiction has introduced the life and works of this Argentinian master-writer to an entire

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Buenos Aires by Jason Wilson

The most European of South American cities, Buenos Aires evokes exile and nostalgia. A nineteenth-century replica of Paris or Madrid set adrift in an alien continent, its identity is neither of the Old World nor the New. The citys rootlessness has famously found expression in the melancholy of tango and,

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Borges and Kafka by Sarah Roger,Sarah Rachelle Roger

Sarah Roger investigates Jorge Luis Borges's development as an author in light of Franz Kafka's influence, and in consideration of Borges's relationship with his father, Jorge Guillermo Borges (Borges pere, a failed author). Borges believed that much of Kafka's writing derived from his personal experiences, particularly his relationship with his

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Borges the Unacknowledged Medievalist by M. Toswell

The Argentinian writer and poet Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) was many things during his life, but what has gone largely unnoticed is that he was a medievalist, and his interest in Germanic medievalism was pervasive throughout his work. This study will consider the medieval elements in Borges creative work and

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