Conversations, Volume 2
Distributed for Seagull Books
Translated by Tom Boll
352 pages
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5 1/2 x 7 3/4
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© 2015
- Contents
- Review Quotes
Table of Contents

Contents
Prologue by Forge Luis Borges
Prologue by Osvaldo Ferrai
Socrates
On the United States
The Cult of Books
Argentina’s Past, Present and Future
On Philosophy
On Borges’ Mother, Leonor Acevedo Suárez
Prologues
Flaubert
On Uruguay
Poetic Intelligence
Almafuerte
Buddhism
‘Epic Flavour’
Virginia Woolf, Victoria Ocampo and Feminism
The Conspirators
Teaching
Bertrand Russell
The ‘Conjectural Poem’
New Dialogue on Poetry
The Moon Landing
Russian Writers
Spinoza
New Dialogue on Alonso Quijano
Celtic Culture
Quevedo
The Mystic Swedenborg
Painting
Voltaire
The Nineteenth Century
Virgil
On Friendship
Chesterton
The Book of Heaven and Hell
Lucretius
On France
Mark Twain, Güiraldes and Kipling
‘Buddha and Personality’
Irish Literature
Góngora
The Poets of New England
On Metaphor
Edgar Allan Poe
Paul Groussac
Shakespeare
New Dialogue on The Conspirators
Prologue by Osvaldo Ferrai
Socrates
On the United States
The Cult of Books
Argentina’s Past, Present and Future
On Philosophy
On Borges’ Mother, Leonor Acevedo Suárez
Prologues
Flaubert
On Uruguay
Poetic Intelligence
Almafuerte
Buddhism
‘Epic Flavour’
Virginia Woolf, Victoria Ocampo and Feminism
The Conspirators
Teaching
Bertrand Russell
The ‘Conjectural Poem’
New Dialogue on Poetry
The Moon Landing
Russian Writers
Spinoza
New Dialogue on Alonso Quijano
Celtic Culture
Quevedo
The Mystic Swedenborg
Painting
Voltaire
The Nineteenth Century
Virgil
On Friendship
Chesterton
The Book of Heaven and Hell
Lucretius
On France
Mark Twain, Güiraldes and Kipling
‘Buddha and Personality’
Irish Literature
Góngora
The Poets of New England
On Metaphor
Edgar Allan Poe
Paul Groussac
Shakespeare
New Dialogue on The Conspirators
Review Quotes
Literary Review
“The English edition is good in that the translator has captured many twists in the old man’s Spanish and in his Argentine quirks. . . . For those of us who knew the grand old man, or heard him frequently, Boll’s version has almost captured the soft, gravelly voice, the pauses that sometimes sounded like a gentle stutter and the ever-present deceptive hint of doubt in asking an interlocutor if an opinion or detail is correct.”
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"Conversations cannot and must not be missed by all lovers of Borges and readers of literature. The three beautifully produced books also feel like collector’s items. . . . The existence of these three volumes of Conversations with Borges will perhaps also calm the storms on Jupiter, change the colours of the hexagonal cloud formation on Saturn’s North Pole, spark a fresh burst of high energy gamma rays from the galactic centre and make our world a bit more imaginative, wondrous, wiser and happier."
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