Seven Nights
by Jorge Luis Borges
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Read in June, 2007
Finished this on my birthday. Read one chapter a day for a week--not the author's recommended method, but the obvious one. Like taking a night class. His voice, ideas echoed in my head and had an effect on some of my browsing choices for the next few weeks.
Actually, it's the translator's voice, isn't it? The lecture-transcriptionist's voice.
Borgesian, that.
Actually, it's the translator's voice, isn't it? The lecture-transcriptionist's voice.
Borgesian, that.
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This is worth the price, whatever they are charging. These lectures were part of Borges later years, where he would riff on a given subject, drawing from his vast knowledge and obscene erudition, jumping from subject to subject. Wonderful.
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Read in May, 2008
So far, this reads like conversations. Occasionally I run into one that I don't care as much for, such as "Kabbalah" but then again, there are others which cater to my taste, like "Buddhism."
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Read in May, 2003
"I think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text; he should change it into something else."
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Read in February, 2008
Seven lectures on The Divine Comedy, Nightmares, Thousand and One Nights, Buddhism, Poetry, The Kabbalah and Blindness. Fantastic!
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Read in October, 2006
Borges rambles in his lectures, but I enjoy them.
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