Jorge Luis Borges,Katherine Silver,MartÃ­n Arias,Martin Hadis
In English at last, Borgesâ€™s erudite and entertaining lectures on English literature from Beowulf to Oscar Wilde,Writing for ,Harperâ€™s Magazine,, Edgardo Krebs describes ,Professor Borges,: â€œA compilation of the twenty-five lectures Borges gave in 1966 at the University of Buenos Aires, where he taught English literature. Starting with the Vikingsâ€™ kennings and Beowulf and ending with Stevenson and Oscar Wilde, the book traverses a landscape of â€˜precursors,â€™ cross-cultural borrowings, and genres of expression, all connected by Borges into a vast interpretive web. This is the most surprising and useful of Borgesâ€™s works to have appeared posthumously.â€,Borges takes us on a startling, idiosyncratic, fresh, and highly opinionated tour of English literature, weaving together countless cultural traditions of the last three thousand years. Borgesâ€™s lectures â€” delivered extempore by a man of extraordinary erudition â€” bring the canon to remarkably vivid life. Now translated into English for the first time, these lectures are accompanied by extensive and informative notes by the Borges scholars MartÃ­n Arias and MartÃ­n Hadis.
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Professor Borges: A Course on English Literature