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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Seagull Books
ISBN-10
0857423983
ISBN-13
9780857423986
eBay Product ID (ePID)
222025438
Product Key Features
Book Title
Conversations, Volume 1
Number of Pages
352 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Caribbean & Latin American, General
Publication Year
2016
Genre
Literary Criticism, Literary Collections
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
14.1 Oz
Item Length
7.7 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Reviews
The ideas and reflections and conjectures documented in these pages are a kind of last word from one of literature's true sages. . . . As a master lecturer and raconteur, Borges invariably shapes his narrative arcs in the form of parabolae rather than hyperbolae, plotting how to curve back as he brilliantly creates each looping outward thread. . . . In these dialogues--as in any genre he attempted--the fundamental unfairness of his outrageous talent is almost always a wonder and a delight., Conversations cannot and must not be missed by all lovers of Borges and readers of literature. The three beautifully produced books also feel like collector's items. . . . The existence of these three volumes of Conversations with Borges will perhaps also calm the storms on Jupiter, change the colours of the hexagonal cloud formation on Saturn's North Pole, spark a fresh burst of high energy gamma rays from the galactic centre and make our world a bit more imaginative, wondrous, wiser and happier., The richness of this publication lies with Borges' lengthy reflections on Argentine literature and culture. . . . There is much in these discussions that I have not found in other publications, and there are some fascinating moments, such as his recollection of meeting Quiroga. . . . This is the first volume of two, and the second volume has an equally tantalizing offering of discussions in the contents.
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
868/.6209
Table Of Content
Prologue by Jorge Luis Borges Prologue by Osvaldo Ferrari Argentinian Identity The Eternal Traveller Order and Time Borges and the Public How a Borges Text Is Conceived and Written A Geographic and Intimate South Conrad, Melville and the Sea On Politics Macedonio Fernández and Borges Borges with Plato and Aristotle Art Should Free Itself from Time Tigers, Labyrinths, Mirrors and Weapons Kafka Could Be Part of Human Memory Modernismo and Rubén Darío Doubts about a Personal Divinity Concerning Love On Friendship with Alfonso Reyes The East, I Ching and Buddhism About Dreams Concerning Ricardo Güiraldes On Humour Concerning Henry James On Conjecture Westerns or Cinema Epics Lugones, That Austere, Heartbroken Man Classics at the Age of 85 Dante, an Infinite Reading Realist and Fantasy Literature Silvina Ocampo, Bioy Casares and Juan R. Wilcock On History The Affinity with Domingo Faustino Sarmiento The Detective Story On Friendship with Pedro Henríquez Ureña Memories of Libraries, Cockpits and Strange Poems An Evocation of Kipling Borges and Memory The Florida and Boedo Groups and the Sur Magazine About Dialogues On Gauchesque Poetry Sonnets, Revelations, Travels and Countries Ethics and Culture Two Trips to Japan Evaristo Carriego, Milonga and Tango Scandinavian Mythology and Anglo-Saxon Epics Borges and Alonso Quijano
Synopsis
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., Buddhism, love, Henry James, and the tango are just a few of the topics Jorge Luis Borges, Argentina's master writer, and extraordinary conversationalist, discusses in the first volume of the remarkable new series, Conversations. The eighty-four-year-old blind man's wit is unending and results in lively and insightful discussions that configure a loose autobiography of a subtle, teasing mind. Borges's favorite concepts, such as time and dreaming, are touched upon, but these dialogues are not a true memoir, they are unrestricted conversations about life at present. The Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, contributed immensely to twentieth-century literature, and more specifically to the genres of magical realism and fantasy. As he progressively lost his sight--he became completely blind by the age of fifty-five--the darkness behind his eyelids held enchanting imagery that translated into rich symbolism in his work. The inner workings of his curious mind are seen vividly in his conversations with Ferrari, and there's not a subject on which he doesn't cast surprising new light. As in his tale "The Other," where two Borgeses meet up on a bench beside the River Charles, this is a dialogue between a young poet and the elder teller of tales where all experience floats in a miracle that defies linear time.
LC Classification Number
PQ7797.B635
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