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Book SynopsisRecorded during Borges’ final years, this third volume of his conversations with Osvaldo Ferrari offers a rare glimpse into the life and work of Argentina’s master writer and favorite conversationalist. In
Conversations: Volume 3, Borges and Ferrari discuss subjects as diverse as film criticism, fantastic literature, science fiction, the Argentinian literary tradition, and the works of writers such as Bunyan, Wilde, Joyce, and Yeats, among others
. With his signature wit, Borges converses on the philosophical basis of his writing, his travels, and his fascination with religious mysticism. He also ruminates on more personal themes, including the influence of his family on his intellectual development, his friendships, and living with blindness.
The recurrent theme of these conversations, however, is a life lived through books. Borges draws on the resources of a mental library that embraces world literature, both ancient and modern. He recalls the works that were a constant presence in his memory and maps his changing attitudes to a highly personal canon. These conversations are a testimony to the supple ways that Borges explored his own relation to numerous traditions—the conjunction of his life, his lucidity, and his imagination.
Trade Review"
Conversations cannot and must not be missed by all lovers of Borges and readers of literature. The three beautifully produced books also feel like collector’s items. . . . The existence of these three volumes of
Conversations with Borges will perhaps also calm the storms on Jupiter, change the colours of the hexagonal cloud formation on Saturn’s North Pole, spark a fresh burst of high energy gamma rays from the galactic centre and make our world a bit more imaginative, wondrous, wiser and happier." * Scroll India *
Table of ContentsBorges in Us, Ourselves in Borges
Initial Conversation, 9 March 1984
Stevenson and Bunyan
Chance
Fantastic Literature and Science Fiction
James Joyce
The Book of Sand
Blaise Pascal
The Imitative Country
St Thomas and the Talmud
Liberalism and Nationalism
Emerson and Whitman
Stoicism
Jesus Christ
Apology for Friendship
Paul Valéry
‘The Intruder’
Oscar Wilde
The Desert, the Plain
Adolfo Bioy Casares
Politics and Culture
Bernard Shaw
On Film Criticism
A New Conversation about Paul Groussac
Letters in Danger
W. B. Yeats (I)
W. B. Yeats (II)
The Literary Thinker
Time
