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Orhan Pamuk Reads Jorge Luis Borges

The New Yorker: Fiction

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Borges, a Political Not Interested in Drama of the Times

Borges was already famous, and everyone wanted him to be a borges, not a graham green. I don't find him a political not interested in drama of the times. When he published o sin newyorker in fifties, he was writing one of his classic stories. He was writing like borges. And for him, this was essential, that he did not like write. Graham green supplying with local color, disordered, local politics, local color. Borges was busy with something else, in trying to invent something. And it's timeless, yes?

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