Borges: A Literary Destiny

{"title":"Borges: A Literary Destiny","description":"\u003Cp\u003EAlberto 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.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe will discuss Borges\u2019s biographical dimension and its links to his poetics, examining how reading shaped Borges\u2019s creativity\u2014from childhood encounters in his father\u2019s library to his later practice of reading through others. The lecture explores themes of memory, translation, textual transformation and the reader\u2019s role.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EIn French.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","start_date":"2026-06-14","end_date":"2026-06-14","date":"Sunday 14 June, 19:30","timings":[{"timing_start_date":"20260614T193000Z","timing_end_date":"20260614T203000Z"}]}