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A review by lauren_endnotes
With Borges by Alberto Manguel
4.0
In the early 1960s, teenage Alberto Manguel worked at an English and German-language book shop in Buenos Aires after school.
At this time, Jorge Luis Borges' eyesight was so poor he could not longer read. He hired a number of people to read to him throughout the day at his Buenos Aires apartment. Among them, Alberto Manguel, only 16 at the time. They began this special literary relationship that continued for 4 years.
WITH BORGES (2002), Alberto Manguel's long-form personal essay about this time, what they read and discussed, and other literary figures he met through Borges. Perhaps best appreciated by readers familiar with Borges and his circle - Adolfo Bioy Casares, Silvina and Victoria Ocampo, etc, this was an enjoyable essay about the personal life - the good, bad, and a bit ugly - of the writer who still casts a long shadow on Latin American literature, forever shaping the landscape.
At this time, Jorge Luis Borges' eyesight was so poor he could not longer read. He hired a number of people to read to him throughout the day at his Buenos Aires apartment. Among them, Alberto Manguel, only 16 at the time. They began this special literary relationship that continued for 4 years.
WITH BORGES (2002), Alberto Manguel's long-form personal essay about this time, what they read and discussed, and other literary figures he met through Borges. Perhaps best appreciated by readers familiar with Borges and his circle - Adolfo Bioy Casares, Silvina and Victoria Ocampo, etc, this was an enjoyable essay about the personal life - the good, bad, and a bit ugly - of the writer who still casts a long shadow on Latin American literature, forever shaping the landscape.