"In one of his last writings, Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) imagined a monstrous book without beginning or end, composed of an exactly infinite number of pages. As if in a fleeting evocation of the confusion between reality and fiction that he liked to evoke, his texts, which have been continuously published worldwide for decades, seem to mimic The Book of Sand: even today they continue to add new pages."
"To the Complete Works that he himself sent to the printing press, there have been added, over time, entire books that the Argentine author had previously disavowed, articles that appeared in newspapers and magazines that he had never compiled, and even some of his valuable manuscripts, among other materials. With the 40th anniversary of his death approaching this coming June, one of the rich veins from which editors and researchers continue to extract treasures is his vast oral work, especially his classes and lectures."
Jorge Luis Borges' 1966 lectures at the Catholic University of Mar del Plata were recovered and published as Curso de literatura inglesa y norteamericana. For five months Borges traveled biweekly by train from Buenos Aires to Mar del Plata despite blindness, addressing a devoted group of students on recurring and unusual literary topics. The lectures were previously lost to the public and their recovery resulted from detective-like archival work led by editor Mariela Blanco, a professor and CONICET researcher. The publication adds to ongoing expansions of Borges' corpus, which has grown with disavowed books, uncompiled articles, and manuscripts.
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