Word: borgese
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Borges (pronounced Bor-hess) has been neglected because he has long been considered too complex to survive translation.
Now two collections of his short stories have been published for the first time in English, and it is clear that both the complexity-and the startling beauty-of his writings derive from the fact that Borges rates poetical insight a good deal higher than analytical thought. "To think is...
In another story, a gaucho is confined to bed for the rest of his life after being thrown by a horse. He hardly cares. The fall has miraculously sharpened his perception so that his memories are boundless: "He knew by heart the forms of the Southern clouds on the 30th...
"Now that sword is slaying us. Many things will have to be destroyed in order to construct the New Order; now we know that Germany is one of these things." Since every event is unique, nobody is permanently good or evil in a Borges story. A traitor at one time...
Freed by Blindness. Born in Buenos Aires, Borges stayed to live and write, though there was plenty of reason for a writer to move. As a young lyric poet, he was condemned by the hidebound traditionalists who dominated Argentine literature. Later, when writing prose, he ran afoul of pro-Nazi...