Adelphi Publishes "Professor Borges": English Literature Lectures from 1960s Buenos Aires

Adelphi has released "Professor Borges," a volume collecting Jorge Luis Borges's English literature lectures delivered during his teaching years at the University of Buenos Aires in the 1960s. Edited by Martín Arias and Martín Hadis, the book opens with an epigraph that captures Borges's singular pedagogy: "I know – or rather I am told, because obviously I cannot see – that my classes have more and more students, and that many are not even enrolled in the course. We can suppose they want to listen to me, no?" The phrase "I cannot see," intensified by the adverb, alludes not only to the writer's progressive blindness but also to his total immersion in the arguments. The review, authored by Roberto Deidier and Anita Romanello, notes that Borges reflected on these lessons through a firm pedagogy grounded in listening, not without a certain self-satisfaction. The volume, recently published by Adelphi, offers a window into Borges's sui generis didactics, where philological rigor—which is not absent—is overlaid with the joy of taste. The article was published on October 6, 2026, by Doppiozero.