Conversations, Volume 1

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Buddhism, love, Henry James, and the tango are just a few of the topics Jorge Luis Borges, Argentina�s master writer, and extraordinary conversationalist, discusses in the first volume of the remarkable new series,�Conversations.�The eighty-four-year-old blind man�s wit is unending and results in lively and insightful discussions that configure a loose autobiography of a subtle, teasing mind. Borges� favorite concepts such as time and dreaming are touched upon, but these dialogues are not a true memoir, they are unrestricted conversations about life at present.� The Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, contributed immensely to twentieth-century literature, and more specifically to the genres of magical realism and fantasy. As he progressively lost his sight�he became completely blind by the age of fifty-five�the darkness behind his eyelids held enchanting imagery that translated into rich symbolism in his work.� The inner workings of his curious mind are seen vividly in his conversations with Ferrari, and there�s not a subject on which he doesn�t cast surprising new light. As in his tale �The Other,� where two Borgeses meet up on a bench beside the River Charles, this is a dialogue between a young poet and the elder teller of tales where all experience floats in a miracle that defies linear time. **