{"id":260126,"date":"2008-02-06T20:46:03","date_gmt":"2008-02-06T20:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2008\/02\/06\/newly-translated-borges-interview\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:34:35","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:34:35","slug":"newly-translated-borges-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2008\/02\/06\/newly-translated-borges-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Newly translated Borges Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In their third number, <em>Habitus<\/em> magazine is featuring <a href=\"http:\/\/www.habitusmag.com\/index.php?id=43\">an interview with Jorge Luis Borges<\/a> that was conducted in 1984 by Professor of Philosophy Tom\u00e1s Abraham at the University of Buenos Aires. The interview has never before been translated into English. It&#8217;s short, but well worth the read:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Sometime ago I said that philosophy is a fantastic branch of study. But I didn\u2019t mean anything against philosophy, on the contrary; it could be said, for example, that it was exactly the same [as poetry] maintaining that the syntax is from two distinct places, [and] that philosophy deserves a place in the order of aesthetics. If you look at theology or philosophy as fantastic literature, you\u2019ll see that they are much more ambitious than the poets. For example, what works of poetry are comparable with something as astonishing as Spinoza\u2019s god: an infinite substance endowed with infinite attributes?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Every philosophy creates a world with its own special laws, and these models may or may not be fantastic, but it doesn\u2019t matter. I\u2019ve entered into poetry, and also fables, that is, I\u2019m not a novelist. I\u2019ve read very few novels in my life; for me the foremost novelist is Joseph Conrad. I\u2019ve never attempted a novel, but I\u2019ve tried to write fables. I\u2019ve dedicated my life to reading more than anything, and I\u2019ve found that reading philosophical texts is no less pleasant than reading literary texts, and perhaps there is no essential difference between them.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In their third number, Habitus magazine is featuring an interview with Jorge Luis Borges that was conducted in 1984 by Professor of Philosophy Tom\u00e1s Abraham at the University of Buenos Aires. The interview has never before been translated into English. It&#8217;s short, but well worth the read: Sometime ago I said that philosophy is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[2136,10196,856],"class_list":["post-260126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-ejvl","tag-habitus","tag-jorge-luis-borges"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260126"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":359496,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260126\/revisions\/359496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}