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Professor Borges: A Course on English Literature

By Jorge Luis Borges & Katherine Silver &
Professor Borges: A Course on English Literature by Jorge Luis Borges & Katherine Silver &  digital book - Fable

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In English at last, Borges’s erudite and entertaining lectures on English literature from Beowulf to Oscar Wilde

Writing for Harper’s Magazine, Edgardo Krebs describes Professor Borges:“A compilation of the twenty-five lectures Borges gave in 1966 at the University of Buenos Aires, where he taught English literature. Starting with the Vikings’ kennings and Beowulf and ending with Stevenson and Oscar Wilde, the book traverses a landscape of ‘precursors,’cross-cultural borrowings, and genres of expression, all connected by Borges into a vast interpretive web. This is the most surprising and useful of Borges’s works to have appeared posthumously.”

Borges takes us on a startling, idiosyncratic, fresh, and highly opinionated tour of English literature, weaving together countless cultural traditions of the last three thousand years. Borges’s lectures — delivered extempore by a man of extraordinary erudition — bring the canon to remarkably vivid life. Now translated into English for the first time, these lectures are accompanied by extensive and informative notes by the Borges scholars Martín Arias and Martín Hadis. 

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“25 lessons about English literature, taken by Jorge Luis Borges at the Universidad de Buenos Aires. They were recoded and therefore transcripted; then, the text was published, after several revisions. The book maintains the form of a spoken discourse and for this reason the repetitions and the expressions maintained highlight their being transcripted and are sometimes quite annoying and disturbing. The text shows Borges's ardor and enthusiasm about English literature (arcaic, medieval and modern), but the speech is often difficult to follow (such as the plot of the cited works). The argument is always filled with many digressions, that either way never let it lose coherence. The Italian translation is faithful to the source text, so it maintains the repetitions and renders the spoken language. However, we must appreciate the intense labour behind this book, which remains a treasure on anyone's shelves.”

Martín Hadis

Martín Hadis is a professor, writer, and researcher.

Martín Arias

Martín Arias is a writer, journalist, and senior researcher at the National Library's Center for Research in Argentina.

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