Bibliograph

Borges and me, an encounter, Jay Parini

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Borges and me, an encounter, Jay Parini

Language

eng

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Borges and me

Oclc number

1120784808

Responsibility statement

Jay Parini

Sub title

an encounter

Summary

"In 1971 Jay Parini was an aspiring poet and graduate student of literature at University of St Andrews in Scotland ; he was also in flight from being drafted into service in the Vietnam War. One day his friend and mentor, Alastair Reid, asked Jay if he could play host for a "visiting Latin American writer" while he attended to business in London. He agreed - and that "writer" turned out to be the blind and aged and eccentric master of literary compression and metaphysics, Jorge Luis Borges. About whom Jay Parini knew precisely nothing. What ensued was a seriocomic romp across the Scottish landscape that Borges insisted he must "see, " all the while declaiming and reciting from the literary encyclopedia that was his head, and Jay Parini's eventual reckoning with his vocation and personal destiny."--, Publisher description"An apprentice writer has an entirely unexpected encounter with literary genius Jorge Luis Borges that will profoundly alter his life and work."--, Provided by publisher

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