Jorge Luis Borges The Last Interview And Other Conversations Kit Maude by Kit Maude, Gloria Lopez Lecube, Jorge Luis Borges 9781612192055, 161219205X instant download after payment.

The literary giant’s last interview, translated into English for the first time, along with the best interviews from throughout his long and influential career.

“Believe me: the benefits of blindness have been greatly exaggerated. If I could see, I would never leave the house, I’d stay indoors reading the many books that surround me.”   -  Jorge Luis Borges 

Days before his death, Jorge Luis Borges gave an intimate interview with his friend, the Argentine journalist Gloria Lopez Lecube. That interview is translated for the first time here, giving English-language readers a new insight into his life, loves, and thoughts about his work and country at the end of his life.

"Further acquaintance with the writings of Borges reveals a complex person who draws extensively from the world’s literature and philosophies, but who with the same breath denies his cosmopolitan urbanity… A highly personal offering. Borges is perhaps telling us that this interview experience was indeed a moment of self-knowledge, a moment suspended in time — that Richard Burgin did indeed help him to ‘know himself."   —  The New York Times

Accompanying that interview is a selection of the fascinating interviews he gave throughout his career. Highlights include his celebrated conversations with Richard Burgin during Borges’s time as a lecturer at Harvard University, in which he gives rich new insights into his own works and the literature of others, as well as discussing his now oft-overlooked political views. The pieces combine to give a new and revealing window on one of the most celebrated cultural figures of the past century.

The Last Interview Series: Melville House has been publishing a popular series of books called The Last Interview and Other Conversations which celebrates the heroes and innovators of art, politics and literature with a collection of interviews and conversations that span their creative