{"product_id":"jorge-luis-borges-richard-burgin-9781578060764","title":"Jorge Luis Borges: Conversations","description":"Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986), one of the indisputably great writers of the twentieth century, was born in Buenos Aires. Never having been awarded the Nobel Prize, which his readers worldwide believed he deserved, this story writer, poet, essayist, and man of letters died at age eighty-six. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This anthology of interviews with him features more than a dozen conversations that cover all phases of his life and work. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Conducted between 1964 and 1984, the interviews reveal Borges to be a remarkably candid, humorous man, by turns skeptical and enthusiastic, and always a singularly incisive and adventurous thinker. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e He discusses his blindness, his family and childhood, early travels, literary friends, and struggles to find his literary identity. In depth he examines the meanings and intentions of his own famous stories and poems, and he speaks of the writers whose works he has loved--Dante, Cervantes, Emerson, Dickinson, H. G. Wells, Kafka, Stevenson, Kipling, Whitman, Frost, and Faulkner--and of those whom he disliked, such as Hemingway and Lorca. Borges expresses his contempt for P駻on and assesses the tumultuous politics of Argentina. He speaks also of the imagination as a type of dreaming, about issues of collaboration and translation, about philosophy, and about time. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Many of the interviews were conducted by notable figures, including Alastair Reid, Willis Barnstone, and Ronald Christ. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e As Borges speaks in these conversations, readers who have fallen under the spell of his magical prose and poetry will find additional sustenance.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Richard Burgin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1578060761\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781578060764\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Press of Mississippi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/1998\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.96lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.97h x 5.87w x 0.77d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/1998 pg. 464","brand":"Richard Burgin","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43980122849535,"sku":"9781578060764","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ad012292-ae63-461b-a716-116d23915b62.jpg?v=1683248528","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/jorge-luis-borges-richard-burgin-9781578060764","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}