One of the collection’s most interesting aspects is the interaction of these incompatible elements: the obvious pleasure Borges takes in the opportunity to present himself for public consumption, and his reflexive skepticism about the necessary fraudulence of the writer as personality.
The New Yorker

A collection of interviews now available from New Directions for the first time

Borges at Eighty

by Jorge Luis Borges

Translated from the Spanish by Willis Barnstone

The words of a genius: Borges at Eighty transcends our expectations of ordinary conversation. In these interviews with Barnstone, Dick Cavett, and Alastair Reid, Borges touches on favorite writers (Whitman, Poe, Emerson) and familiar themes — labyrinths, mystic experiences, and death — and always with great, throw-away humor. For example, discussing nightmares, he concludes, “When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself.”

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Paperback (published June 26, 2013)

ISBN
9780811221214
Price US
18.95
Price CN
20
Page Count
192

Ebook (published June 26, 2013)

ISBN
9780811223249

Jorge Luis Borges

Twentieth-century Argentine author

One of the collection’s most interesting aspects is the interaction of these incompatible elements: the obvious pleasure Borges takes in the opportunity to present himself for public consumption, and his reflexive skepticism about the necessary fraudulence of the writer as personality.
The New Yorker