With Borges

With Borges

<DIV><BR>“This delightful book provides readers a key to more than one secret room of Borges’s magical worlds.”—Mahmoud Darwish<br><BR>“Alberto Manguel is to reading what Casanova was to sex.”—<I>Scotland on Sunday</I><BR><BR>“His stories about Borges . . . [are] wrapped in luminous poetry.”—<I>The Toronto Star</I><BR><BR>Winner of the 2003 Prix du livre en Poitou-Charentes.<br> <br>In 1964, in Buenos Aires, a blind writer in his sixties approached a sixteen-year-old bookstore clerk and asked if he would be interested in a part-time job reading aloud. The writer was Jorge Luis Borges, one of the world’s finest literary minds; the boy was Alberto Manguel, who was later to become an internationally acclaimed author and bibliophile.<br><BR>Manguel’s reflections are part memoir, part biography, and all celebration of the living quality of literature. A moving portrait of an enigmatic genius, replete with deep insight into Borges and the writers he most admired.<p></p></DIV>