This Craft of Verse

“A wondrously limpid testament to the pleasures of reading.” —Steven Poole, The Guardian

Six incandescent lectures on literature from the patron saint of mirrors, metafiction, and infinite libraries.

For more than thirty years, Jorge Luis Borges’s Norton Lectures went unpublished. Recorded at Harvard in 1967 and 1968, the tapes gathered dust in a library vault until their discovery after his death. It was a twist that the author of Labyrinths would have relished. This volume assembles the rec...