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‘If fiction is imagined as a globe,’ wrote Martin Amis, ‘with realism at its equatorial belt, then Borges occupies a spectral citadel in the North Pole.’ If we were to add to Amis’s cosmology a twin planet of non-fiction then its lodestar would guide us to an arctic athenaeum housing Speak, Memory and The Executioner’s Song, and in some derelict shack amidst the slop of the tropics’ fuggiest swampland we would find the shabby and misbegotten Georgie & Elsa. If this is indeed ‘the book that all lovers of Borges have longed for,’ as Paul Theroux’s dust jacket quote alleges, then it must be for reasons that are aleatoric, unforeseen, and more authentically Borgesian than anything to be found within... Alexis Forss reviews Georgie & Elsa: Jorge Luis Borges and His Wife: The Untold Story: review31.co.uk/article/view/275/saving-a-fish-from-drowning
Posted on: Wed, 08 Oct 2014 16:24:11 +0000

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