![]() It's also a magical tour of an era - like our own - in which uncertainties abound, and when - as ever - it's the young and the old who hear voices and dream dreams. As Borges's world of labyrinths, mirrors and doubles shimmered into being, their escapades took a surreal turn.īorges and Me is a classic road novel, based on true events. As they travelled, the charmingly garrulous Borges took Parini on a grand tour of western literature and ideas while promising to teach him about love and poetry. ![]() When Borges heard that Parini owned a 1957 Morris Minor, he declared a long-held wish to visit the Scottish Highlands, where he hoped to meet a man in Inverness who was interested in Anglo-Saxon riddles. Parini was asked to look after him while his translator was unexpectedly called away. ![]() ![]() There, through unlikely circumstances, he met famed Argentinian author Jorge Luis Borges.īorges was in his seventies, blind and frail. Jay Parini, an esteemed literary biographer and accomplished novelist, calls his entertaining new book, Borges and Me, a kind of novelistic memoiran apt description of a narrative that recounts decades-old memories with their contours enhanced and distorted in the usual way by time and retelling. He was in frantic flight from the Vietnam War and desperately in search of his adult life. In this evocative work of what the author in his Afterword calls 'autofiction' or 'a kind of novelised memoir', Jay Parini takes us back fifty years, when he fled the United States for Scotland. In frantic flight from the Vietnam War, Jay Parini leaves the United States for Scotland. Click here to purchase from Rakuten Kobo LONGLISTED FOR THE HIGHLAND BOOK PRIZE ![]()
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