Borges, Spoken

About This Novel

Collection of lectures. In May and June of 1978, Borges gave five lectures at the University of Belgrano in Argentina, on the topics of books, immortality, Emmanuel Swedenborg, detective novels, and time. The theme seems grand and abstract, but the author takes a different approach: talking about the history of books from the perspective of oral tradition, using poetry as a starting point to analyze the meaning of immortality, using Swedenborg to talk about the philosophical propositions of life and death, and hailing detective novels as saviors in a chaotic literary era. The basic metaphysical question of "time" runs throughout the five lessons.

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