Sightless seer of Buenos Aires; Jorge Luis Borges.(Borges: A Life)(Book Review)

From: The Economist (US) | Date: September 11, 2004 | Copyright information

A new biography looks at the inner man, for lack of an outer one

IT IS a challenge to write a biography of a man who did little more than read and think, whose myopia turned to blindness in middle age, who was an auto-didact whose only real job was as a librarian, and who lived with his mother and her housekeeper in a poky Buenos Aires flat until she died at 99, when he was 75. Shortly before that, he wrote gloomily: "My father's library has been the chief event in my life...the truth is that I have never emerged from it."

Edwin Williamson's response is to focus on what ...

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