Borges On WritingBorges On Writing In 1971, Jorge Luis Borges was invited to preside over a series of seminars on his writing at Columbia University. This book is a record of those seminars, which took the form of informal discussions between Borges, Norman Thomas di Giovanni his editor and translator, Frank MacShane then head of the writing program at Columbia, and the students. Borges's prose, poetry, and translations are handled separately and the book is divided

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