
Hisham Matar Reads Jorge Luis Borges
The New Yorker: Fiction
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The Memory of Shakespeare
A visit to Stratford upon Avon was sterile. Then came the gradual transformation of my dreams. It was unknown rooms and faces that entered my nights. A man's memory is not a summation. It is a chaos of vague possibilities. No one may capture in a single instant the fullness of his entire past. That gift was never granted even to Shakespeare, as far as I know.
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