Conversations with Jorge Luis Borges
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Overview:
- Title: Conversations with Jorge Luis Borges
- Author: Jorge Luis Borges, Richard Burgin
- Year: 1969
- ISBN-10: 003081023X
- Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston
- Pages: xvi+144
- Binding: Hardcover
- Type: Non-fiction
- Title Reference: Conversations with Jorge Luis Borges
- Notes: First edition. Month of publication is coded on front flap: "0669".
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Prologue by Jorge Luis Borges
Introduction
Biographical NoteI. A Childhood of Books; Blindness and Time; Metaphysics; Cervantes; Memory; Early Work; Mirrors and Appearances
Epilogue
II. The Living Labyrinth of Literature; Some Major Work; Nazis; Detective Stories; Ethics, Violence, and the Problem of Time
III. Favorite Stories; Insomnia; A Changing Picture; Alice in Wonderland; Ulysses; Robert Browning; Henry James and Kafka; Melville
IV. Tales and Meanings; Favorite Poems; The Gifts of Unhappiness; A Girl from Buenos Aires; Homer; Parables
V. Filmscripts and Films; The Invasion; Acting; Lorca; Pablo Neruda; Unamuno; Other Arts
VI. Darwin; Nietzche; Existentialism and Sartre; Freud; Symmetries; The Patterns of Coincidence; Tolerance and Skepticism; PerĂ³n
VII. Literature as Pleasure; The Maker; The Literature of Literature; A Change in Direction; Don Quixote and Cervantes; Hiroshima; Death and the Problem of Infinity; Dissolving Reality