The collection of lectures, published in 1980, includes the contents of seven lectures given by Borges in the summer of 1977, with the themes of "The Divine Comedy", nightmares, "One Thousand and One Nights", Buddhism, poetry, Jewish mysticism and blindness. It tells about Borges's interaction with the "Divine Comedy", the nightmare of mirrors and labyrinths, Eastern consciousness, the essence of Buddhism, the aesthetics of poetry, the concept of holy books and the tools of art, etc.
Reader comments
Borges's blindness prevented him from observing the real world better, but it allowed him to enter another colorful world, thanks to which the dark poetry created the immortal myth of Latin America.
This book is very interesting! Borges's exploration of dreams and nightmares is very in-depth, which gave me a deeper understanding of these two mysterious fields. This reminds me of the characters in "Inception", wandering between dreams and reality. I also like "One Hundred Years of Solitude", which also contains many descriptions of dreams and hallucinations, which is similar to "Seven Nights". All in all, this is a book worth reading that will give you a new understanding of human consciousness and imagination.
Borges's blindness prevented him from observing the real world better, but it allowed him to enter another colorful world, thanks to which the dark poetry created the immortal myth of Latin America.
This book is very interesting! Borges's exploration of dreams and nightmares is very in-depth, which gave me a deeper understanding of these two mysterious fields. This reminds me of the characters in "Inception", wandering between dreams and reality. I also like "One Hundred Years of Solitude", which also contains many descriptions of dreams and hallucinations, which is similar to "Seven Nights". All in all, this is a book worth reading that will give you a new understanding of human consciousness and imagination.