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The incomparable Borges delivered these seven lectures in Buenos Aires in 1977; attendees were treated to Borges' erudition on the following topics: Dante's The Divine Comedy, Nightmares, Thousand and One Dreams, Buddhism, Poetry, The Kabbalah, and Blindness.

Las sutiles y agudas reflexiones de Borges sobre los libros y los temas que lo apasionaron a lo largo de su vida se encuentran en estas conferencias que vieron su edici n impresa bajo el t tulo Siete noches. a lo largo de sus p ginas entraremos a la memoria prodigiosa del poeta... Read Full Overview

The seven lectures which make up this volume were delivered by Borges in Buenos Aires at the Teatro Coliseo, at intervals between June and August 1977. In an Epilogue to the first Spanish edition of the book, published in Mexico in 1980, Roy Bartholomew tells how the lectures... Read Full Overview