Word: borgese
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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THE ALEPH & OTHER STORIES 1933-1969 by Jorge Luis Borges. 286 pages. Duffon. $7.95.
Jorge Luis Borges has spent a lifetime trying to run away-with stunning success. In part it is the fixed writer of public renown that he fears and flees. Each of his tales represents an escape to some unexplored realm of the imagination. In the most recent stories in The...
As a boy, Borges marveled at the deeds of the footloose gaucho. His style easily accommodates to this new setting: before, it was teasing and allusive; now it becomes as sharp as the knives brandished by the outlaws. These tales, moreover, have been smoothly turned into English by Borges and...
The Dignity of Danger. The violence that saturates the tales has a peculiar purity, as if it existed apart from the will of man. In a story called The Meeting, two youths start quarreling over cards. They are drawn to a cabinet containing the knives of famous duelists of the...
Though half blind and half deaf, Argentine Author Jorge Luis Borges, 71, is still pouring out prose and poetry while lecturing and serving as head of Argentina's National Library. Last week, as he became the first winner of the new $25,000 Inter-American Literature Prize, Borges was...