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...second exhibit, “Jorge Borges at Houghton Library,” includes a selection of materials related to Borges??s tenure as Norton Professor of Poetry in the late 1960s. The exhibits display only a fraction of the writer’s work and personal correspondences that Houghton has amassed over the last three decades...
Although never a Nobel Laureate—which some say is a result of Borges?? politics—the writer shared the first Prix Formentor with Irish poet Samuel Beckett in 1961. The award, given to writers judged to have made a lasting contribution to world literature, led to a shower of invitations that ultimately brought Borges to the United States and Harvard, where he delivered the Norton Lectures (recently published in a collection, This Craft of Verse...
According to Thomas Professor of English and American Literature Emeritus Daniel Aaron, “one didn’t hear of him at all” in the years before Borges?? American tour...
...couple passionate sentences in a whole volume of criticism? The few attempts at humor don’t really work; some jokes repeat themselves in different essays. And it all manages to be astonishingly devoid of gusto, even in its highest praise. In her “Letter to Borges??’ (1996)—a wise, charitable and admirable short work—she makes clear her affection for the man’s writing, but with no locutions less stiff than “I miss you?...