Conversations – Volume 2

Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986), an Argentine writer, poet, and philosopher, is best known for his books Ficciones and The Aleph. Osvaldo Ferrari is a poet, essayist, and professor. His poetry volumes includes Poemas de vida, Poemas autobiográficos, and Poemas existenciales. Tom Boll is a translator and the author of Octavio Paz and T. S. Eliot: Modern Poetry and the Translation of Influence.

• Prologue by Forge Luis BorgesPrologue by Osvaldo FerraiSocratesOn the United StatesThe Cult of BooksArgentina’s Past, Present and FutureOn PhilosophyOn Borges’ Mother, Leonor Acevedo SuárezPrologues FlaubertOn UruguayPoetic IntelligenceAlmafuerteBuddhism‘Epic Flavour’Virginia Woolf, Victoria Ocampo and Feminism The Conspirators TeachingBertrand RussellThe ‘Conjectural Poem’New Dialogue on PoetryThe Moon LandingRussian WritersSpinozaNew Dialogue on Alonso QuijanoCeltic CultureQuevedoThe Mystic Swedenborg PaintingVoltaireThe Nineteenth CenturyVirgilOn FriendshipChesterton The Book of Heaven and HellLucretiusOn FranceMark Twain, Güiraldes and Kipling‘Buddha and Personality’Irish LiteratureGóngoraThe Poets of New EnglandOn MetaphorEdgar Allan PoePaul GroussacShakespeareNew Dialogue on The Conspirators

“The English edition is good in that the translator has captured many twists in the old man’s Spanish and in his Argentine quirks. . . . For those of us who knew the grand old man, or heard him frequently, Boll’s version has almost captured the soft, gravelly voice, the pauses that sometimes sounded like a gentle stutter and the ever-present deceptive hint of doubt in asking an interlocutor if an opinion or detail is correct.”