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Here are transcribed several lectures that Borges gave at Harvard University in 1967. He ruminates on metaphors, translation, the novel, the epic, etc. with wit and erudition. I can’t say that I always agree with him - he privileges the epic form over the modern novel (to oversimplify, modernism is degenerate while the epic is heroic) - but it’s still a gift to be privy to the insights of a man who loved literature as Borges did. It should be noted that Borges had almost completely lost his vision at this point—the lectures were read without notes, which simply astounds me given Borges’s gift for quotation. Any lover of Borges will treasure this book.