Jorge Luis Borges, o maior leitor do século XX

Professor of Hispanic-American literature at Tulane University in New Orleans, Idelber Avelar, from Minas Gerais, talks in this interview with journalist Jerônimo Teixeira about the life and work of the greatest Argentine writer of the 20th century: the short story writer, essayist and poet Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986), author of Ficções and The Aleph. Avelar examines the innovative idea of ​​reading that Borges promoted and recalls how the Argentine author was the object of both admiration and misunderstanding — above all, because of the anti-Peronism that, for a brief moment, led him to support the military dictatorship of the 1970s. He also recalls that Borges, along with Joyce, Proust and many others, is among the literary geniuses who did not win the Nobel Prize for Literature — which he desired with some anxiety.