With Borges on an Ordinary Evening

by Willis Barnstone

Book Overview

This fresh and poignant portrait of Jorge Luis Borges in his later years combines spirited and philosophical conversations, biographical anecdotes, citations from poetry, and literary analysis. Willis Barnstone, a leading translator of Borges's poems and a privileged friend for more than twenty years, presents the poet-storyteller as a figure of paradox and contradictions. He relates Borges's prodigious feats of textual memory, his wry observations...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252018885
• ISBN13: 9780252018886
• Release Date: December 1992
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 198 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"