Borges: 111 books

In English at last, Borges’s erudite and entertaining lectures on English literature from Beowulf to Oscar Wilde Writing for Harper’s Magazine, Edgardo Krebs describes Professor Borges:“A compilation of the twenty-five lectures Borges gave in 1966 at the University of Buenos Aires, where...

Recorded during Jorge Luis Borges’s final years, this second volume of his conversations with Osvaldo Ferrari provides a wide-ranging reflection on the life and work of Argentina’s master writer and favorite conversationalist. In Conversations: Volume 2, Borges and Ferrari engage in a dialogue...

“Borges’s composed, carefully wrought, gnarled style is at once the means of his art and its object-his way of ordering and giving meaning to the bizarre and terrifying world he creates: it is a brilliant, burnished instrument, and it is quite adequate to the extreme demands his baroque imagination...

“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...

The classic by Latin America's finest writer of the twentieth century—a true literary sensation—with an introduction by cyber-author William Gibson. The groundbreaking trans-genre work of Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) has been insinuating itself into the structure, stance,...

Nel 1952 Borges affida alle stampe un libro dal titolo conturbante, "Altre inquisizioni". E appare subito chiaro che un solco profondo, e decisivo, è stato scavato: nell’arte del saggio come nel modo di accostarsi alla letteratura. Ma perché «altre»? A quale misterioso precedente alludeva...

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,...

A íntegra das entrevistas de Lô Borges e Milton Nascimento para Charles Gavin, do Som do Vinil, sobre suas carreiras e um dos mais emblemáticos discos brasileiros: Clube da Esquina (EMI, 1972). "A proposta deixou o departamento artístico da Odeon desnorteado: a realização de um disco de...

“Yo vivo, yo me dejo vivir, para que Borge pueda tramar su literatura y esa literatura me justifica”. —De “Borges y yo” Considerado por el mismo Borges como su libro más personal, El hacedor explora la relación entre el mundo interior y exterior del artista, el misterioso espacio...

Nel 1971, a Oxford, mentre conversava amabilmente con un gruppo di ammiratori, Borges d’improvviso si raggelò: qualcuno aveva fatto allusione alla "Misura della mia speranza". «Quel libro non esiste,» si affrettò a dire Borges al malcapitato «non lo cerchi più». E subito cambiò...

Simile a un enciclopedista cinese, Borges volle accostare una sequenza di destini tenebrosi come altrettanti «esercizi di prosa narrativa». Il tono è quello, impassibile, di chi intende «raccontare con lo stesso scrupolo le esistenze degli uomini, siano stati divini, mediocri o criminali», e...

La obra poética completa del maestro argentino en un solo volumen Además de extraordinario narrador y ensayista, Jorge Luis Borges fue un excelente poeta. De hecho, puede decirse que la poesía es el alma de su obra. Indisociable de sus cuentos y ensayos, estos poemas son parte indispensable...

“A veces creo que los buenos lectores son cisnes aun más tenebrosos y singulares que los buenos autores”. —Jorge Luis Borges En su primer libro de ficción, Borges trabaja con biografías de ladrones y rufianes verdaderos; personajes traidores y a veces también heroicos. Aquí están,...

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