Often considered the greatest living writer of Spanish prose, Jorge Luis Borges was born in 1899 in Buenos Aires. In reviewing a volume of Borges' "fictions within fictions" in the September 29, 1967 Commonweal , Ronald Christ called the term "Borgesian," like Kafkaesque, "indispensable for the specification and clarification of our awareness." In 1961, Borges shared the International Publishers Prize with Samuel Beckett. Several collections of his stories and poems have been translated into English: Labyrinths , Ficciones , Dream Tigers, A Personal Anthology. Mr. Borges was inter viewed by Patricia Marx, weekly interviewer for WNYC, and John Simon, drama critic for New York Magazine . Commonweal: Mr. Borges, you recently spent quite some time visiting Harvard University as the Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry. I wonder what your impressions were of students there.