![]() ![]() ![]() Reviews arent verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when its identified. The pair embark on a trip to the Scottish Highlands, and on the way. An intimate and magical memoir about embarking on a road trip with Borges through Scotland and the famed writers thoughts on literature, love and poetry. Imagine then being a writer, or an aspiring writer, and. There, through unlikely circumstances, he meets famed Argentinian author Jorge Luis Borges. What ensued was a seriocomic romp across the Scottish landscape that Borges insisted he must see, all the while declaiming and reciting from the literary encyclopedia that was his head, and Jay Parini's eventual reckoning with his vocation and personal fate. W e’ve all answered the question at some point about those famous individuals, dead or alive, that we would most like to have dinner with if given the opportunity. About whom Jay Parini knew precisely nothing. ![]() He agreed-and that writer turned out to be the blind and aged and eccentric master of literary compression and metaphysics, Jorge Luis Borges. One day his friend and mentor, Alastair Reid, asked Jay if he could play host for a visiting Latin American writer while he attended to business in London. Ian McEwan In 1971 Jay Parini was an aspiring poet and graduate student of literature at University of St Andrews in Scotland he was also in flight from being drafted into service in the Vietnam War. A poignant and comic literary coming-of-age memoir. Borges and Me is a classic road novel, based on true events. An apprentice writer has an entirely unexpected encounter with literary genius Jorge Luis Borges that will profoundly alter his life and work. ![]()
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