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Orhan Pamuk Reads Jorge Luis Borges

The New Yorker: Fiction

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A Novel Is Not Its Backbone

Calvino borges and nobaco paid way to a new inventive way of writing fiction. He taught us, all of us fiction writers, to think about the structure. And so this story is one of these essential stories that is about thi story. There are two characters who are talking about two characters 25 years ago. The stories and characters mirr each other. These are things that i like, or perhaps these are things I learn from borges after he died. It's not the style really, but making the logic, or even metaphysic of detective story a part of story is interesting. That is his invention.

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