Siete conversaciones con Jorge Luis Borges

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El Ateneo, 1996 - 269 páginas
Hacia 1923 un muchacho miope y timido descubrio que la literatura y el proselitismo eran esencias claramente distinguibles; descubrio que la detallada descripcion de la pobreza o de la riqueza no siempre es apasionante; descubrio que la gramatica no es incompatible con la eficacia del estilo, que la imaginacion no dificulta la invencion de un relato, que el habito de leer no se opone al de escribir; consecuentemente, supo que a algunos lectores les agrada leer. Luego, resignandose a sobrellevar la inteligencia, durante mas de sesenta anos compuso una obra rigurosa y multiple: historias de cuchilleros (Hombre de la esquina rosada), satiras (Pierre Menard, autor del Quijote), asombros metafisicos (Las ruinas circulares), agudezas de la creacion (La supersticiosa etica de lector), recreaciones literarias (El Fin), laberintos teologicos (Tres versiones de Judas).Fernando Sorrentino, entusiasta lector de la obra de Borges, lo ha interrogado sin prisa durante siete tardes: sus preguntas no siempre han sido indulgentes, porque la indulgencia se parece al tedio, y el tedio, a la nada; para anular ese ligero terrorismo, el entrevistado ha preferido la ironia a la indignacion. En este libro, se nos presenta Borges en sus diversas y contradictorias facetas. A veces, sarcastico, arbitrario, generoso; preciso y deslumbrante, siempre.

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Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1899, Jorge Borges was educated by an English governess and later studied in Europe. He returned to Buenos Aires in 1921, where he helped to found several avant-garde literary periodicals. In 1955, after the fall of Juan Peron, whom he vigorously opposed, he was appointed director of the Argentine National Library. With Samuel Beckett he was awarded the $10,000 International Publishers Prize in 1961, which helped to establish him as one of the most prominent writers in the world. Borges regularly taught and lectured throughout the United States and Europe. His ideas have been a profound influence on writers throughout the Western world and on the most recent developments in literary and critical theory. A prolific writer of essays, short stories, and plays, Borges's concerns are perhaps clearest in his stories. He regarded people's endeavors to understand an incomprehensible world as fiction; hence, his fiction is metaphysical and based on what he called an esthetics of the intellect. Some critics have called him a mystic of the intellect. Dreamtigers (1960) is considered a masterpiece. A central image in Borges's work is the labyrinth, a mental and poetic construct, that he considered a universe in miniature, which human beings build and therefore believe they control but which nevertheless traps them. In spite of Borges's belief that people cannot understand the chaotic world, he continually attempted to do so in his writing. Much of his work deals with people's efforts to find the center of the labyrinth, symbolic of achieving understanding of their place in a mysterious universe. In such later works as The Gold of the Tigers, Borges wrote of his lifelong descent into blindness and how it affected his perceptions of the world and himself as a writer. Borges died in Geneva in 1986.

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