Borges, unwritten

Jorge Luis Borges (1899 — 1986) is a cult author of intellectuals, a professor honoris causa at the world's leading universities and a guide to the Babylonian Library and almost all libraries in the world. When, in 1978, Borges was offered to give a series of lectures, he chose for them topics with which he had become familiar over time. In the first, the great Argentinian writer talks about the book, in the second about immortality, in the third about Swedenborg, a visionary who wrote that the dead choose hell or heaven of their own free will. In the fourth - about a detective story, and in the fifth - about time.

"We have many desires, among them - the desire to live and live forever, but there is also a desire for the end, in addition to fear and its reverse - hope. But all this can happen without personal immortality, we do not need it. Personally, I do not want him and am afraid; it would be terrible for me to know that I would go on, it would be terrible to think that I would remain Borges. I am already tired of myself, of my name and my fame, and I want to be free from all this," said Borges, for whom the library was a paradise.