
Hisham Matar Reads Jorge Luis Borges
The New Yorker: Fiction
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The State of Sorgo
I think he's in a vulnerable position and it's the sort of position that all great literature inflicts on its reader. Great books that have had an impact on you remain with you around you. Their silence remains actually too. The quality of their silence remains. And so this is a very extreme state of a man that has been in a way rewired by this great work and this great man. No, I don't think he's very well. What do you think about that last line of the official story where he offers up Bach as an antidote to Shakespeare? Fantastic. In the sense that he's completely right. Music is the thing itself. It's not a translation of an
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