New York Review of Books, 22 October 1998 rieviews/articles on borges: The quintessential Borges, sitting in a heavy chair with his cane. The collection’s depth is unsurpassed, and many items it contains are quite rare.” The Web site contains a few digitized versions of some drawings made by Borges. University of Virginia Special Collection – Maintained by the University of Virginia, this site is dedicated to the University’s Borges holdings, “more than two thousand individual items in virtually all formats, spanning Borges’ career of sixty-five years. They belong to Jorge, Marion and Nicolás Helft, a well-known family of art collectors in Buenos Aires.”

The Helft Collection: Maintained by Ivan Almeida at the JLB Center, this page holds digitized samples of the Helft Collection, a collection of “some of the best documents (manuscripts, first editions, covers, pictures) by and about Borges. The Borges family: Jorge Guillermo, Leonor Acevedo, Norah, and Jorge Luis. With Robert Louit. An interview with Borges from 1977.Ī Conversation with Jorge Luis Borges, Artful Dodge, 25 April 1980. “Blindly the uncertain soul asks to continue” - An interesting photo of Borges with his eyes wide shut.įor those of you who read French: Le goût de l’épopée, Magazine Littéraire, June 1977. With Israel Shenker.Ī combination interview/article. listen to Borges:īorges reads “Borges y yo” (Borges and I):Ī Blind Writer with Insight, New York Times, 6 April 1971. Poems by Borges at The Poetry Foundation. “ The Library of Babel” – Maintained by Jester, this is the text of Borges’ story with a lovely conceptual image of the library. “Borges and I” – Maintained by Georgetown University, this page is a hypertext version of Borges’ essay “Borges and I,” complete with several linked annotations by Dr. Adapted from Borges’ remarks at Columbia University, this essay talks about poetry.

“ Who Needs Poets?” – New York Times, May 8, 1971. Translated by Suzanne Jill Levine, this essay is an “outtake” from the Viking/Penguin Selected Non-Fictions. “A Poem by Oscar Wilde” from 1925, previously available only in Spanish. The Interactive Book of Sand – Max Clarke’s site takes Borges’ Book of Sand and puzzles it up as eight as randomly numbered pages, which the reader must put in the “correct” order. Commissioned by Borges’ widow María Kodama, it has become the standard English translation. (Photo from the Helft Collection)įull text of Collected Ficciones(trans.Andrew Hurley Penguin, 1999). In designing this webpage, I find the following source very useful: the “The Modern Word”‘s comprehensive Borges project, compiled by Allen B.

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