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Seven Conversations with Jorge Luis Borges

Seven Conversations with Jorge Luis Borges

Sorrentino, Fernando
Zlotchew, Clark M.

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ISBN10: 1589880609
ISBN13: 9781589880603
Publisher: Paul Dry Books
Published: Mar 1 2010
Pages: 220
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.40
Language: English

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.

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