Jorge Luis Borges: The Mirror Man - 3/6

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 include: Borges; his mother, Leonor Acevedo de Borges; his second wife, Maria Kodama; and collaborator Adolfo Bioy Casares. Each provide insight 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.

This is also available at http://www.ubu.com/film/borges.html

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[oGNaC]

great author, poet...

[reva12]

One might say he is an atomistic qualia realist. It was as if he was going to follow up with Humean "habitual association" leading to our discernment of discrete objects.

Such geniuses come once or twice a century.

For me who has no roots in Spanish or European cultures, he evokes the lost worlds of BA and SA . Yet his futuristic surreal work somehow imply things are not lost but will repeat.

Thanks Senor Borges.

And thanks for the clips.

[FAyalapoggi]

borges' defintion of reality is great (highly post-modern, on the other hand, very "realistic")