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Jorge Luis Borges: The Last Interview

Author : Jorge Luis Borges
Publisher : Melville House
ISBN 13 : 1612192041
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book Jorge Luis Borges: The Last Interview written by Jorge Luis Borges and published by Melville House. This book was released on 2013-06-25 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Believe me: the benefits of blindness have been greatly exaggerated. If I could see, I would never leave the house, I’d stay indoors reading the many books that surround me.” —Jorge Luis Borges Days before his death, Borges gave an intimate interview to his friend, the Argentine journalist Gloria Lopez Lecube. That interview is translated for the first time here, giving English-language readers a new insight into his life, loves, and thoughts about his work and country at the end of his life. Accompanying that interview are a selection of the fascinating interviews he gave throughout his career. Highlights include his celebrated conversations with Richard Burgin during Borges's time as a lecturer at Harvard University, in which he gives rich new insights into his own works and the literature of others, as well as discussing his now oft-overlooked political views. The pieces combine to give a new and revealing window on one of the most celebrated cultural figures of the past century.

Jorge Luis Borges

Author : Jorge Luis Borges
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781578060764
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (67 download)

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Download or read book Jorge Luis Borges written by Jorge Luis Borges and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 1998 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology of interviews with Borges features more than a dozen conversations that cover all phases of his life and work.

Conversations

Author : Jorge Luis Borges
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780857421883
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book Conversations written by Jorge Luis Borges and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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."

Borges at Eighty: Conversations

Author : Jorge Luis Borges
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811223248
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book Borges at Eighty: Conversations written by Jorge Luis Borges and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2013-06-26 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.”

Conversations with Jorge Luis Borges

Author : Richard Burgin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book Conversations with Jorge Luis Borges written by Richard Burgin and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Professor Borges: A Course on English Literature

Author : Jorge Luis Borges
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811218759
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book Professor Borges: A Course on English Literature written by Jorge Luis Borges and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2013-07-31 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compilation of the twenty-five lectures Borges gave in 1966 at the University of Buenos Aires, where he taught English literature.

Seven Conversations with Jorge Luis Borges

Author : Fernando Sorrentino
Publisher : Paul Dry Books
ISBN 13 : 1589882849
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (898 download)

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Download or read book Seven Conversations with Jorge Luis Borges written by Fernando Sorrentino and published by Paul Dry Books. This book was released on 1982 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These wide-ranging conversations have an exceptionally open and intimate tone, giving us a personal glimpse of one of the most fascinating figures in contemporary world literature. Interviewer Fernando Sorrentino, an Argentinian writer and anthologist, is endowed with literary acumen, sensitivity, urbanity, and an encyclopedic memory of Jorge Luis Borges' work (in his prologue, Borges jokes that Sorrentino knows his work "much better than I do"). Borges wanders from nostalgic reminiscence to literary criticism, and from philosophical speculation to political pronouncements. His thoughts on literature alone run the gamut from the Bible and Homer to Ernest Hemingway and Julio Cortázar. We learn that Dante is the writer who has impressed Borges most, that Borges considers Federico García Lorca to be a "second-rate poet," and that he feels Adolfo Bioy Casares is one of the most important authors of this century. Borges dwells lovingly on Buenos Aires, too. From the preface: For seven afternoons, the teller of tales preceded me, opening tall doors which revealed unsuspected spiral staircases, through the National Library's pleasant maze of corridors, in search of a secluded little room where we would not be interrupted by the telephone…The Borges who speaks to us in this book is a courteous, easy-going gentleman who verifies no quotations, who does not look back to correct mistakes, who pretends to have a poor memory; he is not the terse Jorge Luis Borges of the printed page, that Borges who calculates and measures each comma and each parenthesis. Sorrentino and translator Clark M. Zlotchew have included an appendix on the Latin American writers mentioned by Borges

Georgia Bottoms

Author : Mark Childress
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316121967
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (161 download)

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Download or read book Georgia Bottoms written by Mark Childress and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2011-02-23 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Georgia Bottoms is known in her small community of Six Points, Alabama, as a beautiful, well-to-do, and devoutly Baptist Southern belle. Nobody realizes that the family fortune has long since disappeared, and a determinedly single woman like Georgia needs an alternative, and discreet, means of income. In Georgia's case it is six well-heeled lovers -- one for each day of the week, with Mondays off -- none of whom knows about the others. But when the married preacher who has been coming to call (Saturdays) decides to confess their affair in front of the whole congregation, Georgia must take drastic measures to stop him. In George Bottoms, Mark Childress proves once again his unmistakable skill for combining the hilarious and the absurd to reveal the inner workings of the rebellious human heart.

Borges and Me

Author : Jay Parini
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 198489949X
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (848 download)

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Download or read book Borges and Me written by Jay Parini and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2021-11-23 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Paris Review Interviews (Boxed Set) I-IV

Author : Paris Review Staff
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0312429169
Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (124 download)

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Download or read book The Paris Review Interviews (Boxed Set) I-IV written by Paris Review Staff and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-11-10 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than half a century,The Paris Review has conducted in-depth interviews with our leading novelists, poets, and playwrights. These revealing, revelatory self-portraits have come to be recognized as themselves classic works of literature, and an essential and definitive record of the writing life. This beautiful slipcase edition brings together all four volumes of Picador's selected Paris Review Interviews, including Q&As with Ernest Hemingway, T.S. Eliot, Kurt Vonnegut, Elizabeth Bishop, Richard Price, Joan Didion, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Philip Larkin, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Stephen King, Robert Lowell, Ralph Ellison, Joyce Carol Oates, Raymond Carver, Salman Rushdie, Martin Amis, Maya Angelou, Haruki Murakami, Paul Auster, Marilynne Robinson, and more. The Paris Review InterviewsBox Set is an indispensable treasury of wisdom from the world's literary masters.

Beer in the Snooker Club

Author : Waguih Ghali
Publisher : New Amsterdam Books
ISBN 13 : 1461663245
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (616 download)

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Download or read book Beer in the Snooker Club written by Waguih Ghali and published by New Amsterdam Books. This book was released on 1999-11-02 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Waguih Ghali was raised in Cairo but spent much of his adult life studying and working in Europe. In Beer in the Snooker Club, Ghali chronicles the lives of Cairo's upper crust who, after the fall of King Farouk, are thoroughly unprepared to change its neo-feudal ways. Beer in the Snooker Club was the only book written by Ghali before his suicide in 1968. "Ghali's novel reproduces a cultural state of shock with great accuracy and great humor."–James Marcus of The Nation

Twenty-four Conversations with Borges

Author : Roberto Alifano
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Twenty-four Conversations with Borges written by Roberto Alifano and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Widow Ching--Pirate

Author : Jorge Luis Borges
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141971126
Total Pages : 73 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book The Widow Ching--Pirate written by Jorge Luis Borges and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2011-02-15 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'On days of combat, the crew would mix gunpowder with their liquor' Borges became famous as a writer of short stories that contained new realities: elaborately conceived, ingenious and gamesome précis of impossible worlds or imaginary books. In these five stories there is danger on the high seas, an ungracious teacher of etiquette and an encyclopaedia of an unknown planet - and Borges's unique imagination and intellect plays throughout. This book includes The Widow Ching-Pirate, Monk Eastman, Purveyor of Iniquities, The Uncivil Teacher of Court Etiquette Kôtsuké, Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius, Pierre Menard and Author of the Quixote.

Conversations with Jorge Luis Borges

Author : Richard Burgin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conversations with Jorge Luis Borges written by Richard Burgin and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

On Argentina

Author : Jorge Luis Borges
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0143105736
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book On Argentina written by Jorge Luis Borges and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2010-06-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A literary guide to Argentina by its most famous writer Jorge Luis Borges wrote about Argentina as only someone passionate about his homeland can. On Argentina reveals the many facets of his passion in essays, poems, and stories through which he sought to bring Argentina forward on the world stage, and to do for Buenos Aires what James Joyce did for Dublin. In colorful pieces on the tango and the gaucho, on the card game truco, and on the criollos (immigrants from Spain) and compadritos (street-corner thugs), we gain insight not only into unique aspects of Argentine culture but also into the intellect and values of one of Latin America’s most influential writers. Featuring material available in English for the first time, this unprecedented collection is an invaluable literary and travel companion for devotees of both Borges and Argentina.

This Craft of Verse

Author : Jorge Luis Borges
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674008200
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book This Craft of Verse written by Jorge Luis Borges and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2002-03-30 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transcribed from recently discovered tapes, this work stands as a deeply personal yet far-reaching introduction to the pleasures of the word, and as a first-hand testimony to the life of literature. 1 halftone.

The Story of My Teeth

Author : Valeria Luiselli
Publisher : Coffee House Press
ISBN 13 : 1566894107
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book The Story of My Teeth written by Valeria Luiselli and published by Coffee House Press. This book was released on 2015-09-07 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Luiselli follows in the imaginative tradition of writers like Borges and Márquez, but her style and concerns are unmistakably her own. This deeply playful novel is about the passion and obsession of collecting, the nature of storytelling, the value of objects, and the complicated bonds of family. . . Luiselli has become a writer to watch, in part because it’s truly hard to know (but exciting to wonder about) where she will go next.”—The New York Times I was born in Pachuca, the Beautiful Windy City, with four premature teeth and my body completely covered in a very fine coat of fuzz. But I'm grateful for that inauspicious start because ugliness, as my other uncle, Eurípides López Sánchez, was given to saying, is character forming. Highway is a late-in-life world traveler, yarn spinner, collector, and legendary auctioneer. His most precious possessions are the teeth of the "notorious infamous" like Plato, Petrarch, and Virginia Woolf. Written in collaboration with the workers at a Jumex juice factory, Teeth is an elegant, witty, exhilarating romp through the industrial suburbs of Mexico City and Luiselli's own literary influences. Valeria Luiselli was born in Mexico City in 1983 and grew up in South Africa. Her work has been translated into many languages and has appeared in publications including the New York Times, Granta, and McSweeney's. Her novel, The Story of My Teeth, is the winner of the LA Times Book Prize in Fiction.