Dreamtigers gathers short prose pieces and poems written by Borges in his later years. Its themes include mirrors, labyrinths, memory, tigers, old age, and his love of books and of Buenos Aires. Some pieces are tiny parables of a paragraph, while others are reflective poems. The book is personal and quiet, and it shows the author thinking about his own life as a writer and reader.
Quotes
"Parable of Cervantes and Don Quixote" (January 1955)
"Poem of the Gifts" ["Poema de los Dones"]
The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.