Wednesday, June 23, 2010, 18.00
By an irony of fate, the great Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) is less well known in Britain than elsewhere. Yet not only was he brought up by an English grandmother and an English-speaking father, but he read deeply and omnivorously in the field of English literature and philosophy, and lived all his life in a mental universe that was largely that of a late-Victorian savant. This talk explores this aspect of Borges's oeuvre, which though widely acknowledged has never been given its due.
