“For me death is a hope, the irrational certitude of being abolished, erased and forgotten,” says Borges in this 1984 interview conducted by Professor of Philosophy Tomas Abraham, translated here for the first time into English. “When I’m sad, I think,” Borges goes on, “what does it matter what happens to a twentieth-century South American writer, what do I have to do with all of this? You think it matters what happens to me now, if tomorrow I will have disappeared? I hope to be totally forgotten, I believe that this is death.” Forgotten? Not likely anytime soon, sir. The author on Conrad, free will, labyrinths, and his father’s lesson: “Reading has to be a happiness.” Read the interview here.
