Writing forHarper s magazine, Edgardo Krebs describes Professor Borges: A compil
ation of the twenty-five lectures Borges gave in 1966 at the University of Bueno
s Aires, where he taught English literature. Starting with the Vikings kennings
and Beowulf and ending with Stevenson and Oscar Wilde, the book traverses a land
scape of precursors, cross-cultural borrowings, and genres of expression, all co
nnected by Borges into a vast interpretive web. This is the most surprising and
useful of Borges s works to have appeared posthumously. "
