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Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986), a world-renowned Argentine poet, writer, and translator. The father of Spanish-American literature, his creative style is profound, erudite and unique. He is especially famous for his labyrinth-like conception that blends reality with fiction to achieve mystery. He has a significant influence on contemporary literary creation and literary criticism around the world. In 1976, Borges participated in a series of conversations about his life and work at Indiana University. In the spring of 1980, he returned to Indiana as Professor Paden and spent a month there. He also visited Chicago, New York and Boston, walking and talking along the way. This book is a collection of interviews conducted during these two trips to the United States, with a total of eleven conversations involving Borges's many views on the times, religion, philosophy, literature and writing. Borges's character and conversation are at least as meaningful and witty as his works. During the last decades of his life, he traveled widely dictating poems, fables, and stories. In his travels and chats, he developed a special oral literature. The ubiquitous themes in Borges's works and the mature thoughts of his octogenarian are intertwined and shining in these eleven conversations, giving people a glimpse into the soul of this literary giant. "Borges Conversations" is a poetic collaboration between three poets, Borges, Barnstone and Nishikawa, that spans time, space and language. Nishikawa began translating and introducing Borges in the 1980s, and re-edited and refined the translation twenty years later; the editor Barnstone's new "Postscript" re-evaluated Borges's literary legacy. This book is a newly revised commemorative edition in 2023.

Borges's conversations are as profound and wise as his works, and they remain timeless. The most important founder of American Spanish literature and one of the most influential classic writers of modern literature. Borges's character and conversation are at least as meaningful and witty as his works. During the last decades of his life, he traveled widely dictating poems, fables, and stories. In his travels and chats, he developed a special oral literature. The ubiquitous themes in his works are interwoven and shining in these eleven conversations, giving people a glimpse into the soul of this literary giant. This book is a poetic collaboration between three poets, Borges, Barnstone and Nishikawa, that spans time, space and language. Nishikawa began to translate and introduce Borges in the 1980s. Twenty years later, he revised and refined the translation and revised the new edition. Editor Barnstone's new work "Postscript" thirty years later re-evaluates Borges's literary legacy.