Thanks, Matthew, for this guest essay. As someone born and bred in Argentina, absorbing Borges first by osmosis and then at university, I find his work even more and more enticing every time I read, reread or discover essays like these. I could add I had the enormous pleasure of meeting him on several occasions, but I would use "learning from" rather than meeting. He was a very humble and modest about his writing and loved teaching and the interaction with students, but I digress. I will only add that for those readers who are at times put off by Borgesian challenges, his creations are vastly diverse as to appeal to just about everyone. Thanks again, for Mark Cohen's essay.
This fascinating essay makes me wonder what Borges would have produced in the age of the internet. His rabbit holes would perhaps have become dense warrens of hyperlinks to other worlds. Or perhaps he would have disdained the digital world altogether. Whatever his response, I'm sure it would have been mind bending.
Thanks, Matthew, for this guest essay. As someone born and bred in Argentina, absorbing Borges first by osmosis and then at university, I find his work even more and more enticing every time I read, reread or discover essays like these. I could add I had the enormous pleasure of meeting him on several occasions, but I would use "learning from" rather than meeting. He was a very humble and modest about his writing and loved teaching and the interaction with students, but I digress. I will only add that for those readers who are at times put off by Borgesian challenges, his creations are vastly diverse as to appeal to just about everyone. Thanks again, for Mark Cohen's essay.
Simply brilliant.
This fascinating essay makes me wonder what Borges would have produced in the age of the internet. His rabbit holes would perhaps have become dense warrens of hyperlinks to other worlds. Or perhaps he would have disdained the digital world altogether. Whatever his response, I'm sure it would have been mind bending.