7/7/2023 0 Comments Borges and me pariniAs Borges gave Parini a weird tour of his fiction, so Panini gives the reader a tour of the Borges fictive universe: libraries, encyclopedias, riddles, labyrinths and mirrors. Parini calls his book an act of language, and echoes Borges, who said anything that passes through memory is fiction. Seventy-one-year-old Jorge Luis Borges as seen through the eyes of twenty-one-year-old Jay Parini in “Borges and Me: An Encounter.” If you can believe it: Parini was unfamiliar with Borges upon meeting him! In this book a great literary figure is a thrillingly unusual and crazy old man-Parini says the book flew out of his thoughts and memories and dreams from the fifty years since the events transpired. The book is, essentially a road trip memoir of a trip from fifty years ago. Today I heard Michael Silverblatt interview Jay Parini about his book Borges and Me on the Bookworm radio show from KCRW. On my walk this morning, as I often do, I listened to a podcast or two.
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