6/9/2023 0 Comments Borges and me by jay parini![]() ![]() ![]() It's also a magical tour of an era - like our own - in which uncertainties abound, and when - as ever - it's the young and the old who hear voices and dream dreams. As Borges's world of labyrinths, mirrors and doubles shimmered into being, their escapades took a surreal turn.īorges and Me is a classic road novel, based on true events. When Borges heard that Parini owned a 1957 Morris Minor, he declared a long-held wish to visit the Scottish Highlands, where he hoped to meet a man in Inverness who was interested in Anglo-Saxon riddles.Īs they travelled, the charmingly garrulous Borges took Parini on a grand tour of western literature and ideas while promising to teach him about love and poetry. Parini was asked to look after him while his translator was unexpectedly called away. It’s also a magical mystery tour of an era, like our own, in which uncertainties abound, and whenas everit’s the young and the old who hear voices and dream dreams. There, through unlikely circumstances, he met famed Argentinian author Jorge Luis Borges.īorges was blind, in his seventies and frail. Borges and Me is a classic road novel, based on true events. He was in frantic flight from the Vietnam War and desperately in search of his adult life. In this evocative work of what the author in his Afterword calls 'autofiction' or 'a kind of novelised memoir', Jay Parini takes us back fifty years, when he fled the United States for Scotland. ![]() An intimate and magical memoir about embarking on a road trip with Borges through Scotland and the famed writer's thoughts on literature, love and poetry. ![]()
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