Jorge Luis Borges: The Last Interview: And Other Coversations

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Days before his death, Jorge Luis Borges gave an intimate interview to 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 and thoughts about his work and country at the end of his life. Accompanying this final interview are a selection of the fascinating interviews he gave throughout his career. Together, this thought-provoking collection provides a fresh look at one of the most celebrated cultural figures of the past century.

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Borges is arguably the great bridge between modernism and post-modernism in world literature. David Foster Wallace, The New York Times

Borges is the most important Spanish-language writer since Cervantes. . . . To have denied him the Nobel Prize is as bad as the case of Joyce, Proust, and Kafka. Mario Vargas Llosa

Without Borges the modern Latin American novel simply would not exist. Carlos Fuentes

[Borges] has lifted fiction away from the flat earth where most of our novels and short stories still take place. John Updike

[Borges] engages the heart as well as the intelligence; his genius strikes, undismayed as Theseus, through the labyrinths of our life and time to the accomplishment of new, inspiring and stunningly beautiful work. John Barth

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Jorge Luis Borges (b. 1899, Buenos Aires, Argentina; d. 1986, Geneva, Switzerland) was an Argentine short-story writer, poet, essayist and translator. He was one of the greatest literary figures of the twentieth century, inspiring generations of writers in the US and UK as well as his native Latin America. He is most famous for the short-story collections Ficciones (1944) and The Aleph (1949).