Borges at Eighty Conversations Author:Jorge Luis Borges A collection of interviews now available from New Directions for the first timeThe words of a genius: Borges at Eighty transcends our expectations of ordinary conversation. In these interviews with Barnstone, Dick Cavett, and Alastair Reid, Borges touches on favorite writers (Whitman, Poe, Emerson) and familiar themes ? labyrinths, mystic experi... more »ences, and death ? and always with great, throw-away humor. For example, discussing nightmares, he concludes,?When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It?s the astonishment of being myself.? 8 Black and white photographs« less