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Conversations, Volume 1
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.
352 pages | 5 1/2 x 7 3/4 | © 2014
Literature and Literary Criticism: General Criticism and Critical Theory
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Table of Contents
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
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