Borges at Eighty: Conversations

By Jorge Luis Borges

Book Overview

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."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811221210
• ISBN13: 9780811221214
• Release Date: June 2013
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"