An apprentice writer has an entirely unexpected Encounter with literary genius Jorge Luis Borges that will profoundly alter his life and work.
His nonfiction works include Jesus: The Human Face of God , Why Poetry Matters , and Promised Land: Thirteen Books That Changed America ..
His biographical subjects include John Steinbeck, Robert Frost, William Faulkner, and, most recently, Gore Vidal. , and The Last Station , the last made into an Academy Award-nominated film.
He has written eight novels, including The Damascus Road , Benjamin\'s Crossing , The Apprentice Lover , The Passages of H.
M.
About author(s): Jay Parini is a poet, novelist, and biographer who teaches at Middlebury College.
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.
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. --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.
This is a jewel of a book.
A poignant and comic literary coming-of-age memoir.
An apprentice writer has an entirely unexpected Encounter with literary genius Jorge Luis Borges that will profoundly alter his life and work
