A Dialogue on Borges' Blindness

Among the ironies in Jorge Luis Borges’ work is that he was an inveterate reader with a portentous memory who, around the age of fifty, could no longer read and write unassisted: blindness left books out of reach at the very moment he became the director of Argentina’s National Library. Yet he didn’t feel incapacitated by blindness, grounding an intellectual journey in the richness of his experience at the edge of sight and using it to reconsider the nature of imagination, identity, and lite

Blindness · Borges, Kipling, and Jewish Identity · Latin American Literature Studies · Literature, Magical Realism, García Márquez · Medicine · Psychology · Optometry