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“The Priest Is Us”: The Power and The Glory, Graham Greene’s Adventure of...
The Gospels are powerful not simply because Christ performed miracles and taught kindness, strength, and humility. Humanity has long attributed to certain individuals impossible deeds, tremendous...
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“Toenails”— Jorge Luis Borges
Tagged: Borges, Fables, Jorge Luis Borges, Microfiction, short shorts, shorties
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Jacques Derrida and Jorge Luis Borges
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“The Great Bridge Between Modernism and Post-modernism”— David Foster Wallace...
. . . Borges is arguably the great bridge between modernism and post-modernism in world literature. He is modernist in that his fiction shows a first-rate human mind stripped of all foundations in...
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Why I’m Not Particularly Interested in Reading a DFW Biography
(Think about it — the personal lives of most people who spend 14 hours a day sitting there alone, reading and writing, are not going to be thrill rides to hear about.) –David Foster Wallace on literary...
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John Barth on Italo Calvino and Jorge Luis Borges
The paralleli of the achievements of Borges and Calvino are mostly obvious, the relevant anti-parallelino doubt likewise. To begin with, both writers, for all their great sophistication of mind, wrote...
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Borges Riff/Borges Anxiety
Art by Roman Muradov 1. Jorge Luis Borges is 115 today. 2. I’ve shared clips from my scattered readings of Borges on this blog (receiving the occasional takedown notice as well)—but I’ve never mustered...
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