Conversations with Jorge Luis Borges

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 Note
    I. A Childhood of Books; Blindness and Time; Metaphysics; Cervantes; Memory; Early Work; Mirrors and Appearances
    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
    Epilogue