Although honors came late in life to Jorge Luis Borges, his unique worldview had begun to emerge even as a child. This program examines the life and literary career of the charismatic Argentine wri...
Although honors came late in life to Jorge Luis Borges, his unique worldview had begun to emerge even as a child. This program examines the life and literary career of the charismatic Argentine writer, as well as the thematic, symbolic, and mythological underpinnings of his works. Archival interviews with Borges; his mother, Leonor Acevedo de Borges; his second wife, Maria Kodama; and collaborator Adolfo Bioy Casares provide insights into the private Borges, while readings from The Mirrors, Dreamtigers, The Plot, The South, The Aleph, and other landmarks of Latin American fiction demonstrate his virtuosity as a transformer of experiences.
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This was fantastic. I'm just getting into Borges and can feel Labyrinths shifting the way I see/think the world. Nice to see the man behind the words -- cool pacing of the footage, too.
Thank you very much for posting this. It put pictures to what I knew already. It is a justification of Youtube that stuff like this appears. What would Borges have made of the Internet - a real Library of Babel.
His best work can evoke the sense of some magical object - somehow the writing itself and seperately, the images contained in it. Certain texts seem like metaphysical toys which model, not the material, but the meaning of the world. Play is the thing.
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