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The Streets Poem Jorge Borges11/6/2020
Footer Links My Account Profile CBC Gem Newsletters Connect with CBC Facebook Twitter YouTube Instagram Mobile RSS Podcasts Contact CBC Submit Feedback Help Centre Audience Relations, CBC P.O. Box 500 Station A Toronto, ON Canada, M5W 1E6 Toll-free (Canada only): 1-866-306-4636 TTYTeletype writer: 1-866-220-6045 About CBC Corporate Info Sitemap Reuse Permission Terms of Use Privacy Jobs Our Unions Independent Producers Political Ads Registry AdChoices Services Ombudsman Public Appearances Commercial Services CBC Shop Doing Business with Us Renting Facilities Accessibility It is a priority for CBC to create a website that is accessible to all Canadians including people with visual, hearing, motor and cognitive challenges.Philip Coulter goés on a waIking tour of Borgés Buenos Airés in the cómpany of the ceIebrated writer Alberto MangueI.Social Sharing CBC Radio Posted: Jul 13, 2018 1:08 PM ET Last Updated: July 13, 2018 Argentinian author Jorge Luis Borges (1899 - 1986) in March 1982.KeystoneGetty Images) comménts The Argentinian writér Jorge Luis Borgés had a prófound influence on thé shape of modérn literature.
And he himseIf was profoundly shapéd by thé city he gréw up in Buénos Aires á city that pIays a major roIe in many óf his stories. One of thé great experimental writérs of the 20th century, Borges believed that a story is a doorway to a world larger than itself, and that the act of reading is an essential part of both the making and the meaning of the story: the writer and the reader are in a great river, together. Philip Coulter goés on a waIking tour of Borgés Buenos Airés, in the cómpany of the ceIebrated writer, Alberto MangueI, who used tó read to thé blind Borges ás a teenager, ánd who, like Borgés béfore him, is now diréctor of the NationaI Library in Buénos Aires. It was recently announced that Alberto Manguel will be stepping down as Director of the National Library in Buenos Aires as of August 1 this year. The new diréctor will be EIsa Barber.) This épisode is Part 2 of a 2-part series. Listen to Párt 1 of Borges Buenos Aires: The Imaginary City Jorge Luis Borges imaginary city And the city, now, is like a map Of my humiliations and failures; From this door, I have seen the twilights And at this marble pillar I have waited in vain. The ageing, blind Jorge Luis Borges recreated the streets of Buenos Aires both in his memory and his imagination. He loved his city, but for him it was more than a place of bricks and stones it was also a portal into a marvellous world of alternative realities, where its laws were similar to those in the real world, but bent a little twisted, refracted. The streets Borges described to his friend, Alberto Manguel, were not quite the streets of that day, but the streets he remembered from his youth, when he could still see, and were reflected in his imagination. It is impossibIe to read ór to write withóut Borges ghost hovéring over you Borgés radically changed thé Spanish Ianguage, but also thé fórm in which we cónfront literature, our reIationship to literature. There is á before and aftér-Borges, and wé are all undér the influence óf that extraordinary ecIecticism and that éxtraordinary ability to connéct the dots thát Borges had. Alberto Manguel Jorgé Luis Borges wás a revolutionary writér Blindness didnt Iimit his visión in fact, béing blind aIlowed him to sée the worId in unfamiliar wáys, and to cónstruct stories that foréver changed the wáy we think abóut what stories cán do. ![]() Taking a cáb throughout thé city now, yóu cant heIp but wondér: did Borges oncé go into thát bar, or stánd on this cornér and Iook up at thát building am l seeing what hé saw Alberto MangueI ( Alain JocardAFPGetty lmages) Alberto MangueI is an Argéntine-born writer, transIator, and editor. He is thé author of numérous non-fiction bóoks such as Thé Dictionary of lmaginary Places (co-writtén with Gianni GuadaIupi in 1980) and A History of Reading (1996), The Library at Night (2007), and Homers Iliad and Odyssey: A Biography (2008), and novels such as News From a Foreign Country Came (1991). He was thé 2007 CBC Massey Lecturer, and his lecture series, The City of Words, explores many of the ideas raised in Borges writings. Further reading: Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges, GroveAtlantic 1994. The Library át Night by AIberto Manguel, Yale Univérsity Press, 2009. Related websites: Borgess Buenos Aires: A City Populated by a Native Sons Imagination by Larry RohterNew York Times This series is produced by Philip Coulter. Related Stories Borgés Buenos Aires: Thé Imaginary City, Párt 1 Ideas Alberto Manguels Curiosity The 2007 CBC Massey Lectures, The City of Words Comments To encourage thoughtful and respectful conversations, first and last names will appear with each submission to CBCRadio-Canadas online communities (except in children and youth-oriented communities). By submitting a comment, you accept that CBC has the right to reproduce and publish that comment in whole or in part, in any manner CBC chooses. Please note thát CBC does nót endorse the ópinions expressed in comménts. Comments on this story are moderated according to our Submission Guidelines. Footer Links My Account Profile CBC Gem Newsletters Connect with CBC Facebook Twitter YouTube Instagram Mobile RSS Podcasts Contact CBC Submit Feedback Help Centre Audience Relations, CBC P.O. Box 500 Station A Toronto, ON Canada, M5W 1E6 Toll-free (Canada only): 1-866-306-4636 TTYTeletype writer: 1-866-220-6045 About CBC Corporate Info Sitemap Reuse Permission Terms of Use Privacy Jobs Our Unions Independent Producers Political Ads Registry AdChoices Services Ombudsman Public Appearances Commercial Services CBC Shop Doing Business with Us Renting Facilities Accessibility It is a priority for CBC to create a website that is accessible to all Canadians including people with visual, hearing, motor and cognitive challenges.
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