Professor Borges: A Course on English Literature
“Picture this: You’re an Argentine teenager, sitting in a lecture hall on the first day of classes, ready to learn about the history of English literature. In walks your kindly, elderly professor, and suddenly he starts speaking, about everything fromThe Dream of the RoodtoTreasure Island, sometimes quoting entire paragraphs, without any notes whatsoever. He’s also blind (and has been for more than a decade). What would your reaction be?” (The Globe & Mail)“Readers will probably findProfessor Borgesmore enthralling as a document of Borges himself than as a guide to English literature. Borges’s vast erudition is felt everywhere in these pages, and he is at his best when he digresses.” (Will Glovinsky - The Rumpus)“Borges’ delivery will engross you — he is an excellent storyteller.” (New York Daily News)