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by JORGE LUIS BORGES and ADOLFO BIOY-CASARES
Since Bustos Domecq does not exist, Argentine Authors Jorge Luis Borges and Adolfo Bioy-Casares had to invent him. Why? Because Domecq is the pure incarnation of the middleman between a world gone culturally haywire and the uncomprehending mass of mankind. His function: telling people why they should admire nonsense...
AS A CRITIC, Updike displays the same tolerant eye for people which marks his fiction; the reviewer is not in conflict with the poet and novelist in him. His pieces, the majority of which have appeared in The New Yorker, are not pedantic and their appeal is expansive. His topics...
Jorge Luis Borges, the great poet and essayist, the most eminent living Argentine, is proud to come from a patriot family. Some fought for Argentina and "some died."
"I had a country. I am ashamed of my country today." Is there any hope for Argentina? "No−oh, maybe in 200 years." Borges is almost totally blind, but he knows how shabby Buenos Aires has become, "and I still get homesick if I'm away for a...