Borges Conversations at Eighty

I am undoubtedly aware that I am eighty years old. I hope that I may die at any moment, but what else can I do but keep living, and since dreaming is my name, keep dreaming? I have to dream constantly, then those dreams have to turn into words, and I have to struggle with those words and do my best or my worst with them.

Jorge Luis Borges, one of the greatest literary figures of his age, is a writer who blurs the boundaries of genres such as stories, poems and essays. He refuses to fit into the interview format in these conversations where he touches on life, death, literature, art, travel and many other topics. He told his audience, “After all, crowds are an illusion. There is no such thing as crowd. "I'm talking to you one on one," he says. He really manages to reach beyond the page and talk to his readers one on one.

Themes that have an important place in his literature such as nightmares, labyrinths and mirrors, subjects that have attracted his attention throughout his life such as Old English and Old Norse sagas, and writers that he cherishes such as Whitman and Poe appear intertwined in all of these conversations that Borges had in his eighties. . In his eighties, Borges draws an intimate and unique portrait for those who want to know the master closely.

(From the Promotional Bulletin)

Editor: Willis Barnstone

Dough Type: 2nd Dough

First Printing Year: 2017

Number of Printings: 1st Edition

Number of Pages: 270

Media Type: Paperback