On Writing

In 1971 Borges gave a series of three talks to university students in New York, dedicated to poetry, fiction and translation, and these have been recorded and published in this slim volume. It reads like a transcript of a public radio programme, a conversation between intelligent and well-read peopl......more

I am continuing my reading of the five collections of Borges' stories, essays, and poems published by Penguin in 2010 under the editorship of Suzanne Jill Levine. The reason I am doing this is twofold: First of all, going all the way back to the 1960s, I have thought that the Argentinean author walk......more

Some 40 years ago, an almost informal encounter took place in an auditorium of Columbia University. A small group of students enrolled in some writing program met Borges with various questions about inspiration, subject, motivation, beliefs etc., keen to discover some of the authorship secrets. It w......more

This book was my introduction to Borges' work. I read it in my leisure time over my first year of college. I was impressed and intrigued, but I think I failed to appreciate Borges' genius at the time. I felt a bit of offense at Borges' attitude toward writing longer works of fiction, but he may have......more

Este libro recopila las charlas de Borges con estudiantes de la Universidad de Columbia en 1971. En su seminario, Borges trató temas como los cuentos, la traducción y la poesía, éste libro es la transcripción de esas conversaciones. Disfruté mucho la lectura de éste libro porque es tener una irada c......more