Alberto Manguel, Argentine-Canadian writer, essayist and former director of the National Library of Argentina, is known for A History of Reading and Reader of Borges; his work examines reading, libraries and literary imagination.

He will discuss Borges’s biographical dimension and its links to his poetics, examining how reading shaped Borges’s creativity—from childhood encounters in his father’s library to his later practice of reading through others. The lecture explores themes of memory, translation, textual transformation and the reader’s role.

In French.

Alejandro Vaccaro, collector and biographer of Jorge Luis Borges, appears with Alejandro Roemmers (poet and entrepreneur) and Roberto Alifano (author, poet and essayist) to present their research and collections.

The roundtable examines how collecting practices shape narratives around Borges, exploring notable objects, metonymic extensions of the writer, and the philosophical stakes of preserving literary heritage. Vaccaro will show selected items from his private collection and speakers reflect on memory, curation and literary legacy.

In Spanish.

Silvia Hopenhayn, Argentine writer and cultural journalist, offers close readings of Jorge Luis Borges’s fiction and its formal strategies, drawing on her experience with Latin American literature and criticism.

She examines Borges’s short stories, focusing on character creation, paradoxes, enumerations and rhetorical devices, and argues that these brief narratives act as inventive gestures. The session explores figures like Pierre Menard, Funes and Emma Zunz and investigates how form and erudition reveal singular subjectivities.

In French.