A Visit With Argentina's Borges
The works of Argentina’s Jorge Luis Borges were known to but a few in North America when, five years ago, he won with Samuel Beckett the Formentor Prix International des Editeurs. Since then his fame has grown; four collections of his poetry and fiction have been published in English, and his genius is accepted even by many who have not read him. John Gurther tells about Borges as he visited him in Buenos Aires in preparation of the newest Gunther book, INSIDE SOUTH AMERICA, to be published at the end of this month by Harper Row. Keith Botsford, the author of five novels and the director of the National Translation Center in Austin, Texas, discusses the origins and the meaning of the sixty-seven-year-old poet, critic, and fantasist.