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proximoception) wrote2013-10-15 05:20 am
proximoception) wrote2013-10-15 05:20 am
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An awful lot in Borges reads like the attempts of a godless, countryless, pragmatic, in all other ways literary-philosophical person to sympathize - genuinely so - with the history-making obsessions of the miserable others.
And since that person in each of us spends a lot of its time marveling at everything else that we do, this is consonant enough with his "Borges and I" strain.
(In "Garden," written during and in reaction to the War, he sympathizes even with his/literature's own murderer. He thought of Stephen Albert as Goethe, and he was, but in the same sense that Borges was.)
And since that person in each of us spends a lot of its time marveling at everything else that we do, this is consonant enough with his "Borges and I" strain.
(In "Garden," written during and in reaction to the War, he sympathizes even with his/literature's own murderer. He thought of Stephen Albert as Goethe, and he was, but in the same sense that Borges was.)