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Orhan Pamuk Reads Jorge Luis Borges

The New Yorker: Fiction

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The Outdone Raven Reads, Yes, and I Don't

This story does not give the joys tolstoy or henry james is giving. Dunraven, you know, he knows the story from his boyhood. We are trying to grab something more strongly sensual but we don't go to borges to read sensual stories. About what is interesting here his strength, his determination to write a story about stories, lost stories. And the characters, in a way, mirroring the ambiguities strength an the scaly parts, mysterious parts, romantic parts of the story.

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