Conversations avec Jorge Luis Borges

Conversations avec Jorge Luis Borges originated from a series of interviews conducted in 1968 by Richard Burgin while he was a young professor at Harvard. Burgin spent several months engaging the aging, blind Argentine master in discussions that ranged from literature and philosophy to theology and personal memory. This French edition, published by Gallimard in 1972, served to solidify Borges's international intellectual presence during a period when his global reputation as a seminal writer of the twentieth century was peaking.

The design and editorial presentation reflect Gallimard's long-standing tradition of academic and literary curation. The volume presents the dialogues not as simple journalistic transcriptions, but as a structured exploration of the author's idiosyncratic worldview. Upon release, the book was well-received by critics and readers alike, praised for capturing Borges's conversational wit and the haunting, labyrinthine clarity of his speech, which provided readers with a more intimate perspective on the man behind the complex fiction.