Borges at Eighty

✍ Scribed by AA. VV.

• Book ID: 100680768
• Year: 1981
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 233 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

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, 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.”