Last summer we met in July to analyse some of the best stories by Jorge Luis Borges. This year we’ll read and discuss a series of seven lectures, titled Siete noches.1
Originally pirated as recordings, Borges later claimed them as his own and reworked them into this collection. The lectures take subjects such as The Divine Comedy, The Thousand and One Nights, nightmares, the gift of blindness, Buddhism, poetry, and the Kabbalah as points of departure for imaginative reflections on literature, memory, and language.
About the author: Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) was an Argentine writer, poet, critic, and librarian. He remains one of the most important literary figures of 20th-century literature, and is known for his use of paradox, infinity, mirrors, labyrinths, and imagined books.
About the convenor (AKA yours truly): Fernando Sdrigotti (Rosario, Argentina, 1977) is the author of Jolts, Shitstorm, We Are But Nothing, and A Foreign Country is the Past, among other works. He teaches Spanish, and Latin American literature and cinema at Birkbeck, University of London.