Word: borgesã
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...manages to do without: “In the Koran, there are no camels.”The illustrious Buenos Aires author was a little off: The Koran actually does allude to camels twice, in passages 6:144 and 22:36. But despite the humps in his logic, Borges??s argument still holds water. The unfortunate truth is that many books written by non-Western novelists in English—especially those by South Asian authors—rely on the equivalent of camels for effect, peppering works with spices and ceremonies, arranged marriages and zany in-laws...
...tried to dismiss the bizarre experience as a dream, or nightmare. But they soon confirmed they both were Borges??one in Cambridge, on the Charles’ shore, the other in Geneva, on the banks of the Rhône; one lecturing at Harvard, the other composing his first poems; one cynical about the unstoppable march of History, the other waxing idyllic on the brotherhood of all men; one at the dusk of life, the other at its dawn...
...missing manuscripts, which were first published in 1939, are two of Borges?? most influential stories...
...loss,” Roll said. He considers Borges??who held the Charles Eliot Norton professorship of poetry at Harvard in the late 1960s—to be the 20th century’s most influential writer, and “Pierre Menard” its finest short story...
Williams Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures Doris Sommer, who has taught Borges?? work in her graduate seminar on aesthetics, wrote in an e-mail that her reaction to the news “alternates between great sadness for the loss and humor, because of course both stories perform the joke typical in Borges of purposefully confusing original with copy...