Description
A collection drawn from Jorge Luis Borges' lectures.
The incomparable Borges delivered these seven lectures in Buenos Aires in 1977; attendees were treated to Borges’ erudition on the following topics: Dante’s The Divine Comedy, Nightmares, Thousand and One Dreams, Buddhism, Poetry, The Kabbalah, and Blindness.
Also By: Jorge Luis Borges 
Labyrinths
E Book, 2017
The classic by Latin America's finest writer of the twentieth century—a true literary sensation—with an introduction by cyber-author William Gibson.
Professor Borges: A Course On English Literature
Paperback, 2014
Now in paperback Borges’s erudite and entertaining lectures on English literature from Beowulf to Oscar Wilde.Borges at Eighty: Conversations
E Book, 2013
A collection of interviews now available from New Directions for the first time
Professor Borges: A Course on English Literature
Hardback, 2013
In English at last, Borges’s erudite and entertaining lectures on English literature from Beowulf to Oscar Wilde
Professor Borges: A Course on English Literature
E Book, 2013
In English at last, Borges’s erudite and entertaining lectures on English literature from Beowulf to Oscar Wilde
Also By: Eliot Weinberger
The Life of Tu Fu
Paperback, 2024
A book-length poem by “our best living literary essayist” (Forrest Gander).
Poetry Pamphlets 1-4
Paperback, 2023
Angels & Saints
E Book, 2020
A gorgeously illustrated co-publication with Christine Burgin by “one of the world’s great essayists” (The New York Times). With a guide to the illustrations by Mary Wellesley.
Angels & Saints
Hardback, 2020
A gorgeously illustrated co-publication with Christine Burgin by “one of the world’s great essayists” (The New York Times). With a guide to the illustrations by Mary Wellesley.
The Poems of Octavio Paz
Paperback, 2018
Now in paperback, the definitive, life-spanning, bilingual edition of the poems by the Nobel Prize laureate
Also By: Alastair Reid
The Man Who Counted: A Collection of Mathematical Adventures
E Book, 2016
“A great storyteller.”—Paulo Coelho, author of The Alchemist
The Man Who Counted: A Collection of Mathematical Adventures
Paperback, 2015
“A great storyteller.”—Paulo Coelho, author of The Alchemist
Pablo Neruda: Absence and Presence
Paperback, 1991
Nobel Prize winner Pablo Neruda wrote often about the natural world and the beloved objects he surrounded himself with.