![]() His gaze was always trained inward, on the mind and the soul. His blindness never seemed to hamper Borges much as a writer. ![]() “Always there are jokes,” his private secretary informed the interviewer. He never lost the spirit of impishness that makes his writings anything but mere intellectual exercises, as the merry chaos of his 1966 Paris Review interview testifies. He concocted literary forgeries, imitations of other writers, and planted them in collections of the real thing. One of his favorite genres is the imaginary book review-well, the reviews are real enough it’s the books that are imaginary. ![]() There’s nothing formidable or mandarin about Borges’ work he is the people’s modernist, an equal opportunity mind-blower.īorn into a distinguished military family, Borges once remarked that the single most determining event in his life was “my father’s library.” He lived, breathed, and quite possibly also ate books, and as a result, many of his stories have to do with the paradoxes of writing, reading, and language. The Mystery Writers of America would give him a special Edgar Allan Poe Award for “distinguished contribution to the mystery genre” in 1976. But it’s also worth noting that-while his work was relatively unknown outside of Latin America until he won an important international literary prize in 1961-Borges had published stories not just in literary journals but also in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine and a science-fiction pulp notorious for its extensive coverage of UFOs. ![]()
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