Orhan Pamuk Reads Jorge Luis Borges

Orhan Pamuk阅读Jorge Luis Borges

The New Yorker: Fiction

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2019-01-03

55 分钟
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Orhan Pamuk joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss "Ibn Hakkan Al-Bokhari, Dead in his Labyrinth," by Jorge Luis Borges, from a 1970 issue of the magazine. Pamuk's novels include "Snow," "My Name is Red," and "The Museum of Innocence." He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2006.

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  • This is the New Yorker fiction podcast from the New Yorker magazine.

  • I'm Deborah Treisman, fiction editor at the New Yorker.

  • Each month we invite a writer to choose a story from the magazine's archives to read and discuss.

  • This month we're going to hear Ibn Hakan al Bokhari dead in his labyrinth by Jorge Luis Borges, translated from the Spanish by Norman Thomas D.

  • Giovanni.

  • In collaboration with the authorization, it was published in the New Yorker in April of 1970.

  • Wary of a world that lacked the dignity of danger, the two friends set great value on these far reaches of Cornwall.

  • The story was chosen by Orhan Pamuk, who is the author of ten novels, including the Red Haired Woman and the Museum of Innocence.

  • He was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 2006.

  • Hi, Orhan.

  • Hi, Deborah.

  • So the last time you were on this podcast, you read a piece by Vladimir Nabokov, and this time you were quite sure that you wanted to read Borges.

  • So I'm wondering what Borges has meant for you in your reading and writing.

  • Let me put it this way.

  • The greatest novelists are Tostoy, Dostoevsky, Proust and Thomas Mann.

  • Then the Calvino, the Borges and Nobako comes for me.

  • The greats were the great masters of 19th century fiction.

  • Great composers of big, moving, deep novels, especially Borges and Calvino, deconstructed what they achieved.

  • I like it when sometimes Borges says, well, Henry James would write 700 pages of a novel about this.

  • Let me tell you this in a brief story, and this is why one is attracted by Borges.