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xx, 254 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
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English
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"Jorge Luis Borges, one of the indisputably great writers of the twentieth century, was born in Buenos Aires in 1899. Never having been awarded the Nobel Prize, which his readers worldwide believed he deserved, this story writer, poet, essayist, and man of letters died at age eighty-six." "This anthology of interviews with him features more than a dozen conversations that cover all phases of his life and work." "He discusses his blindness, his family...
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New Directions paperbook volume 186
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xxiii, 260 pages ; 21 cm.
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English
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"A monumental and riveting account of how a poet, a physicist, and a philosopher pursued truth to the very limits of human apprehension and revealed the fundamental nature of our place in the universe. Spiraling in the wreckage of a failed love affair, Argentine poet Jorge Luis Borges channeled his devastation into his work, reassessing the slippery nature of our own identities and the way we perceive reality, ultimately securing his place in the...
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