Jorge Luis Borges, RIP. (obituary)

From: National Review | Date: July 18, 1986 | Copyright information

Jorge Luis Borges, RIP

WITH JORGE LUIS BORGES'S death it is incredible to look back and realize that he did not get the Nobel Prize for Literature, which was given to Pearl Buck, John Steinbeck, and some Spanish and Italian poets who were not nearly so widely read nor one-quarter so influential. Worse still, it was given to William Golding at the very time that Borges had achieved his eminence. Was it that he offered no moral lessons, but wove his artifice for its own bea...

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The Romanic Review ; Books by Jorge Luis Borges Autobiografia: 1899-1999. Buenos Aires: El Ateneo, 1999. Borges: Obras, resenas y traducciones ineditas: Diario Critica 1933-1934. Ed. Irma Zangara. Barcelona: Atlantida, 1999. (This book is an edited version of Borges en Revista Multicolor: Obras, resenas y traducciones
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