![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 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. He has written eight novels, including The Damascus Road, Benjamin’s Crossing, The Apprentice Lover, The. There, through unlikely circumstances, he met famed Argentinian author Jorge Luis Borges.īorges was blind, in his seventies and frail. Jay Parini is a poet, novelist, and biographer who teaches at Middlebury College. He was in frantic flight from the Vietnam War and desperately in search of his adult life. Borges and Parini, master and student, driving around the Highlands of Scotland in a battered candy-red Morris Minor. 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. In classic Borgesian style, he opts to write himself into his own drama. 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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