Borges's Eighty Years of Nostalgia

Author: Willis Barnstone
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Publish Date: 2004-01-01
Features: It is already awe-inspiring that a person can live to be over eighty, let alone someone like Borges. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Borges had been blind for many years, yet he still traveled extensively. When the Muse visited him, he created his immortal works through his words. American poet Willis Barnstone and others interested in Borges conducted interviews with him during his travels. A nearly forgotten Chinese poet, Xichuan, translated these interviews into Chinese, resulting in the book in your hands, Borges at Eighty.
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As spoken by Shou Zhu: Borges was a contemporary Argentine poet, novelist, writer, and translator renowned worldwide. He was proficient in multiple languages, including English, French, German, and others. His writing style was influenced by the Spanish avant-garde movement and figures like Kafka and Edgar Allan Poe, yet it remained uniquely distinctive. Profound and erudite, he was particularly celebrated for his "labyrinth" of intricate constructions that blended reality with fiction, creating a mysterious and surreal atmosphere. His prose was pure yet hallucinatory, earning him the reputation as a classic alternative to surrealism in Latin America and a "progenitor" of postmodernism. This book is a collection of interviews Borges gave in his twilight years, covering topics such as his era, religion, philosophy, literature, and especially his views on his own writing. Through these conversations, one can glimpse the depths of this master's mind.