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Mohsin Hamid Reads Jorge Luis Borges

The New Yorker: Fiction

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The Infinite Book of Borsheus

I think very often in Borsheus there are provocations that can lead us into different directions. He's opening up avenues for us to go down, once he's introduced the notion that this text comes from India. And so already he's setting up so many resonances within this presumably Indian context for this story to come. The element of contamination that a book, any book has upon us when we encounter it,. That we are no longer pure when we've read something.

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