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Seven Nights Author: [Argentina] Jorge Luis Borges Publisher: Shanghai Translation Publishing House
Seven Nights Author: [Argentina] Jorge Luis Borges Publisher: Shanghai Translation Publishing House
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Introduction · · · · · ·
Borges's exquisite writing skills are supported by his vast reading and lifelong passion for scholarship. His non-fiction works are full of various imaginative literary motives. This book is a collection of lectures, published in 1980, which includes seven lectures given by Borges in the summer of 1977. The lectures are respectively on "The Divine Comedy", "Nightmare", "One Thousand and One Nights", Buddhism, poetry, Jewish mysticism and blindness. It tells about Borges's interaction with "The Divine Comedy", nightmares mixed with mirrors and labyrinths, oriental consciousness, the essence of Buddhism, the aesthetics of poetry, the concept of holy books and the tools of art, etc.
About the Author · · · · · ·
Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986)
Argentine poet, novelist, critic, translator, master of Spanish literature.
Born on August 24, 1899 in Buenos Aires, he traveled to Europe with his family as a teenager.
In 1923, he published his first poetry collection, "Buenos Aires Passion", in 1925, he published his first essay collection, "Explorations", and in 1935, he published his first short story collection, "The Villain's Biography", which gradually established his position in the Argentine literary world. His representative poetry collections, "Notes of San Martín" and "The Golden Color of the Tiger", his novel collections "The Garden of Forking Paths" and "Aleph", and his essay collections "The History of Eternity" and "Explorations", have won him international reputation. He has translated works by writers such as Oscar Wilde, Woolf, and Faulkner.
He has served as director of the National Library of Argentina and professor of literature at the University of Buenos Aires. He has won many literary awards, including the Argentine National Literature Award, the Formentor International Publishing Award, the Jerusalem Prize, the Balzan Prize, the Chino del Duca Prize, and the Cervantes Prize.
He died of illness in Geneva, Switzerland on June 14, 1986.
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