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. 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.Īs 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. 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 blind, in his seventies and frail. 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 a kindof novelistic memoir, Jay Parini takes us back fifty. 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. What ensued was a seriocomic romp across the Scottish landscape that Borges insisted he must see, all the while declaiming and reciting from the literary encyclopedia that was his head, and Jay Parini's eventual reckoning with his vocation and personal fate.An intimate and magical memoir about embarking on a road trip with Borges through Scotland and the famed writer's thoughts on literature, love and poetry. About whom Jay Parini knew precisely nothing. He agreed-and that writer turned out to be the blind and aged and eccentric master of literary compression and metaphysics, Jorge Luis Borges. One day his friend and mentor, Alastair Reid, asked Jay if he could play host for a visiting Latin American writer while he attended to business in London. entirely unexpected encounter with literary genius Jorge Luis Borges that will profoundly alter his life and work. Ian McEwan In 1971 Jay Parini was an aspiring poet and graduate student of literature at University of St Andrews in Scotland he was also in flight from being drafted into service in the Vietnam War.
A poignant and comic literary coming-of-age memoir. As Borges’s idiosyncratic world of labyrinths, mirrors, and doubles shimmers into being, their escapades take a surreal turn. An apprentice writer has an entirely unexpected encounter with literary genius Jorge Luis Borges that will profoundly alter his life and work.
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