My advanced age has taught me the resignation of being Borges.Some Borges links in honor of this fine day:
-- Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986)
"El informe de Brodie" ("Dr. Brodie's Report")
- The Borges Center at the University of Iowa
- Modern Word page of Borges resources
- Another Borges site
- Wikipedia entry
- Borges site with English translations of some stories, poems, and essays
- Borges's poem "Heraclitus" translated by Thomas Frick
- Borges's story "Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" in English and Spanish
- Audio excerpts of Borges's Norton Lectures at Harvard in 1968
- A lovely HTML version of Borges's story "The Garden of Forking Paths"
- Borges's very short story "The House of Asterion" provided by Mr. Waggish
- "The Analytical Language of John Wilkins" by Borges
- A 1980 interview with Borges
- Video: Jorge Luis Borges: The Mirror Man
- John Barth on Borges and Calvino
- NYT article on Borges's Buenos Aires
- A few links via The Guardian
- A BBC radio programme about Borges
- The Borgesian Cyclopedia (links and articles)
- Borges's India: Mystics and Bibliographers
- Clive James on Borges's politics
- The Queer Use of Communal Women in Borges' "El muerto" and "La intrusa"
- Of Mirrors and of the Labyrinth
- Borges's widow visits a labyrinth
Awesome links!
ReplyDeleteVery nice hanging with you this afternoon, sir! We must eat cake again together soon. :-)
Indeed! Little did we know we were celebrating Borges's birthday! (Isn't hindsight great?)
ReplyDeleteIf only I'd had candles...
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