Norman Thomas Di Giovanni

Ustanin Dersi Borges Ve Yapilari Üstüne

Jorge Luis Borges

Glauco Felici

Elogio dell'ombra

Dos personas de la misma formacion y distinta nacionalidad pero con una pasion comun: la literatura. Gracias a las astucias del amigo personal, las virtudes del biografo pueden apreciarse en su justa medida. Gracias a la complicidad de los dos hombres, en este libro extraordinario aparece una teoria de la traduccion.Norman Thomas di Giovanni mantuvo con Borges una estrecha y prolongada amistad. Contratado como traductor de Borges por The New Yorker durante nueve anos, di Giovanni logro asimismo difundir la obra del escritor argentino en diversas publicaciones de habla inglesa.

La lección del maestro

The Aleph and Other Stories 1933-1969

Contemporary Argentine Stories

Hand in Hand Alongside the Tracks and Other Stories

Doctor Brodie's Report

The Book of Sand

"In The Lesson of the Master, di Giovanni writes movingly of their friendship and close collaboration. He draws on this unique relationship to explore Borges's work and in these insightful and often humorous essays succeeds in enlivening our understanding of the author and the man."--BOOK JACKET.

On Borges and His Work

The Lesson of the Master

Jorge Luis Borges wrote: "Fame is a form of incomprehension, perhaps the worst." Since his death Borges has been inducted into the world literary canon through the efforts of a number of influential critics and the Borges estate. Central to this project has been the publication of a group of grand volumes whose greatest achievement has been to make available in English works that had previously remained obscure, even in Spanish. The five-year collaboration (1967-1972) between Borges and Norman Thomas di Giovanni produced the translations that brought Borges his burgeoning global English readership. The Lesson of the Master--a memoir and essays--is an indispensable work for Borges readers and his growing legion of students and scholars. Di Giovanni was the only translator to have Borges on hand on a daily basis to contradict or authorize his work. In addition di Giovanni is not burdened with an over-reverence for his subject but is on the contrary playful, robust, and witty. The Lesson of the Master is an essential illumination of one of the great masters of twentieth-century literature.

Norman Thomas Di Giovanni

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