Agnon, a Borgesian Invention; A Lost Lecture Resurfaces, Revealing Unknown Influences

Forward | February 6, 2004| | Copyright

Stavans, Ilan
Forward
02-06-2004
I have known for quite some time that Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) was a
philosemite. The Argentine writer was a lover of Franz Kafka's work, a
vocal intellectual against Nazism, a fervent supporter of Israel after the
Six Day War and a student of kabbala. He even wished he could read Hebrew.
But a chance comment I made in "Ilan Stavans: Eight Conversations" (The
University of Wisconsin Press, 2004) by Neal Sokol wound up teaching me
something I didn't know. In the interview, I stated that Borges had never
read work by Shmuel Yosef Agnon, the first Hebrew writer to ...

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