Jorge Luis Borges on War
Great Minds Gather Here (Audio)
English - March 14, 2016 21:00 - 56 minutes - 25.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsSociety & Culture Health & Fitness Medicine science politics comedy news entrepreneurship interview culture business books health Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Efrain Kristal explores the shadow war cast over the life and writings of the Argentine Jorge Luis Borges whose family found itself comfortably stranded in neutral Switzerland during World War I, whose translations introduced the Spanish-speaking world to German expressionist poetry from that era and who later monitored the rise of Nazism with dismay. Series: "UCLA Faculty Research Lectures" [Humanities] [Show ID: 30566]