About the Book: Conversations, Volume 1
Buddhism, love, Henry James, and the tango are just a few of the topics Jorge
Luis Borges, Argentinas master writer, and extraordinary conversationalist,
discusses in the first volume of the remarkable new series, Conversations. The
eighty-four-year-old blind mans wit is unending and results in lively and
insightful discussions that configure a loose autobiography of a subtle, teasing
mind. Borgess 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