Mother's boy.(Borges: A Life)(Book Review) From: National Review | Date: January 31, 2005| Author: Valiunas, Algis | COPYRIGHT 2005 National Review, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Borges: A Life, by Edwin Williamson (Viking, 574 pp., $34.95)

THE Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986), prolific master of the short burst, known for his poems, essays, and stories and for never having written a novel, was the founding father of magic realism and is widely thought of as the greatest Spanish-language writer since Cervantes. Borges is of course most famous for his fantasies with cosmic implications; among the best are "Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius,"...