Jorge Luis Borges: This Craft Of Verse 4-Disc Set

Jorge Luis Borges This Craft Of Verse 4-Disc Set AUDIO CDs six lectures literary Type: Audio Book Platform: Audio CD Publisher: Harvard College Released: 2000 Media: CD JORGE LUIS BORGES: THIS CRAFT OF VERSE 4-DISC SETThese are the six Norton Lectures that Jorge Luis Borges delivered at Harvard University in the fall of 1967 and spring of 1968. The recordings, only lately discovered in the Harvard University Archives, capture the cadences, candor, wit, and remarkable erudition of one of the most extraordinary and enduring literary voices of our age. Through a twist of fate that the author of Labyrinths himself would have relished, the lost lectures return to us now-in Borges' own voice. Born in 1899, Borges was by this time almost completely blind (only a single colour - yellow, "the color of the tiger" - remained for him), and thus addressed his audience without the aid of written notes. Probably the best-read citizen of the globe in his day, he draws on a wealth of examples fro