the paris review
The Missing Borges
Seven years ago, a stolen first edition of Borges’s early poems was returned to Argentina’s National Library. But was it the right copy?
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Jorge Luis Borges and the Translators of the Nights
This reading of Borges’s essay was initially inspired in the 1970s by the Uruguayan literary critic Emir Rodríguez Monegal (1921-85). Yet another game with shifting mirrors, “The Translators of The 1001 Nights” (1936) is a labyrinth whose hidden center is Sir Richard Burton. In Borges’s private universe, Burton is ultimately a precursor of Jorge Borges, his Anglo-Argentine father who was also drawn to the “Orient.”
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Borges and Memory: Encounters with the Human Brain
What is the genesis of Funes the Memorious, the Jorge Luis Borges story about a mnemonist that fascinates neuroscientists, and is as famed a fictional treatise on memory as anything but Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past?
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Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius (PDF)
I went crazy about this sort of thing in my 20s... now I just find it tremendously beautiful. I owe the discovery of Uqbar to the conjunction of a mirror and an encyclopedia.
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Is Borges the 20th Century’s most important writer?
Jorge Luis Borges’ mysterious stories broke new ground and transformed literature forever. Everyone should read him, writes Jane Ciabattari.
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