The Boston Globe, August 1st, 2004
Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) persuaded his readers that he was a writer without a biography. He used to write that nothing more important than reading a line of Shakespeare happened to him. In the end, he wrote, the forms that a writer traces in his work compose his true face. Borges was displeased by psychological writing (Dostoyevsky proves that nobody is impossible, he joked) as much as by self-expression (any I could be another I) and realism (to duplicate reality is perverse). By revising his early poetry, Borges was capable of rewriting his painful youth and lonely adulthood. Three Borg...
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