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AFTER two years and six issues, The Island has entered a new phase in establishing itself as a noteworthy literary publication. Issue number seven is the first by a staff which includes none of the magazine's originators. Now being circulated, it features a splendid interview with splendid Jorge Luis...
The strength of this and every issue--except the fifth, which relied on a short story--has been a significant interview with a prominent writer (such as W. H. Auden or John Barth). Carter Wilson's superbly conducted discussion with Borges is perhaps the most enlightening piece published about the...
"Borges and Us" provides an audience just beginning to appreciate Borges' inventive "fictions" and enchanting Norton lectures with an introduction to the remarkable personality behind the magic. Wilson's technique is to remain unobtrusive, to give Borges free rein. The two quickly establish a lively, productive rapport (Wilson: "My next...
Like the best of Fuentes' earlier books, Where the Air Is Clear (1960) and The Death of Artemio Cruz (1964), this one shows the influence of just about everyone the ambitious Mexican ever admired. There are echoes of Dos Passes, D. H. Lawrence, Faulkner, Mailer, Julio Cortázar...
No man has a fixed identity, despite such flashes of clarity. In the parable "Everything and Nothing," Borges describes Shakespeare exhausting all the guises of reality, unable to perceive any "fundamental identity of existing." The last paragraph imagines the playwright's final awareness: