Ilan Stavans: Eight Conversations

Index

Abulafia, Abraham ben Samuel, 10 Abuya, Elisha ben, 68, 170 Academic Questions, 57, 112 Acosta, Oscar “Zeta,” 111–112 Adorno, Theodor, 33 After Babel (Steiner), 122 Against the Current (Berlin), 74 AGNI, 34, 37 Agnon, S. Y., 69, 89, 178 Aguinis, Marcos, 75, 176, 182 Ahad Ha’am, 69, 192 Ahmed, Leila, 33 Akhmatova, Anna, 75 Aki Yerushalayim, 96 A la recherche du temps perdu (Proust), 120 Alas, Leopoldo, 58 “The Aleph” (Borges), 156 Alfau, Felipe, 82 Alfonso X, 95 Alice in Wonderland (Carroll), 87 Allen, Woody, 69 Allende, Isabel, 90, 158 Allende, Salvador, 66 Almagro, Diego de, 97 Alonso, Dámaso, 75 Alter, Robert, 156 Alvarez, Luis Echeverría, 126 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay (Chabon), 117, 160 American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 99 American Jewish Congress Monthly, 48 American Pastoral (Roth), 59, 184 Améry, Jean, 73 A mulher que escreveu a Bíblia (Scliar), 183 Anna Karenina (Tolstoy), 20 Appelfeld, Aharon, 59 Aquí estamos, 17 An Area of Darkness (Naipaul), 81 Arenas, Reinaldo, 106, 108 Arendt, Hannah, 10, 33, 147 Arnold, Matthew, 84, 94 As a Driven Leaf (Steinberg), 170 As I Lay Dying (Faulkner), 20 Asbury, Dana, 174–175 Asch, Sholem, 186, 187 Assis, Machado de, 91 Atlantic Monthly, 74 Atta, Muhammed, 104 Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter (Vargas Llosa), 155, 161 Auto-da-fé (Canetti), 190 “Autobiographical Essay” (Borges), 132, 155, 156 The Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo (Acosta), 112 Avnet, Jon, 38 Avrin, Leila, 168 Awakenings (Sacks), 21 Ba’al Shem Tov, 9, 11, 169, 170 Babel, Isaac, 76, 89, 90 Balcells, Carmen, 158, 162 Bakunin, Mikhail, 61 195 Index Index Barnes, Julian, 151 Barrios, Miguel Leví de, 188 Baudelaire, Charles, 89 Beckett, Samuel, 18 Bell, Daniel, 60, 70 Bellow, Saul, 59, 89, 177, 179 Benítez-Rojo, Antonio, 57 Benjamin, Walter, 10, 33, 71, 73, 89 Benjamin of Tudela, 192 Berceo, Gonzalo de, 95 Bergelson, David, 148 Bergman, Ingmar, 153 Beristáin, Arturo, 8 Berkeley, George, 145 Berlin, Isaiah, 56, 74, 75, 152 Berliner, Isaac, 12 Bernstein, Leonard, 83 Bialik, Hayyim Nahman, 178 Bierce, Ambrose, 124 Bioy Casares, Adolfo, 161 Bishops’ Bible, 94 Blades, Rubén, 59 Blake, William, 190 Bloom, Allan, 108 Bloom, Harold, 73, 75 Blücher, Heinrich, 33 Bly, Robert, 66 Boccaccio, Giovanni, 189 Bonaparte, Napoleon, 35 Borges, Jorge Luis, ix, 18, 20, 21, 40, 76, 85, 86, 102, 103, 106, 107, 128, 131, 132, 138, 153, 155, 156, 158, 161, 177–179, 183, 190 Borowski, Tadeusz, 73 Boston Globe, 59 Boswell, James, 145, 159, 167 The Boys from Brazil (Levin), 45 “The Boys in the Backroom” (Wilson), 161 Brecht, Bertolt, 33 Broch, Hermann, 22, 73 Brod, Max, 69 The Broken Spears (León-Portilla), 97 The Brothers Karamazov (Dostoevsky), 144 Brown (Rodríguez), 110, 111 Browning, Chrisopher, 39 Buber, Martin, 9, 10, 14, 69, 87 Buch der Sprüche und Bedenken (Schnitzler ), 146 Bukiet, Melvin Jules, 33 Burgin, Richard, ix Burgos-Debray, Elizabeth, 44 The Buried Mirror (Fuentes), 161 Burton, Richard Francis, 80 Buruma, Ian, 62–63 Bush, George W., 34, 51, 124 Cahan, Abraham, 179 Calderón de la Barca, Pedro, 114 A Call for the Destruction of Nixon and Praise for the Chilean Revolution (Neruda), 66 Camus, Albert, 152 Canetti, Elias, 90, 96, 190 Canetti, Veza, 96 Canfield, Cass, Jr., 162, 163 Cansinos-Assens, Rafael, 131 The Canterbury Tales (Chaucer), 188, 189 Canto General (Neruda), 66 The Captain’s Verses (Neruda), 65, 67 Carmi, T., 188 Carpentier, Alejo, 122 Carroll, Lewis, 87 Carter, Forrest, 152, 153 Carvajal, Luis de, 13 Castaneda, Carlos, 10 Castillo, Bernal Díaz del, 97–98 The Castle (Kafka), 170 Castro, Américo, 95 Castro, Fidel, 56, 76, 98, 159, 165 Ceausescu, Nicolae, 76 Cebrián, Juan Luis, 138 Celan, Paul, 33, 73 The Centaur in the Garden (Scliar), 182 Cervantes, Miguel de, 16, 25, 87, 116, 140, 142, 170, 188 Cesarani, David, 151 Chabon, Michael, 117, 160 Chandler, Raymond, 18 A Change of Skin (Fuentes), 40 Chávez, César, 45 Chávez, Linda, 59 Chekov, Anton, 20, 21 Chomsky, Noam, 52, 53, 54, 61 Chronicle of a Death Foretold (García Márquez), 161, 166 196 Index Chronicle of the Narváez Expedition (Núñez Cabeza de Vaca), 105 Churchill, Winston, 36 “The Circular Ruins” (Borges), 178–179 Cisneros, Sandra, 26 City of Palaces (Berliner), 12 The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of the World Order (Huntington), 103 The Closing of the...