Portrait of Jorge Luis Borges
Jorge Luis Borges described his singularity in the following way: he had never left his father's library. This library that we often and quite readily associate with the labyrinth was the place where his work found its source, where a dialogue between his work and the books of the past took place. Blindness, which gradually set in, could only encourage his withdrawal into his inner life.Alberto Manguel said about Borges: "I read to him (Borges was blind around 50 years old) Kipling. I read him short stories that he remembered with precision. He dissected the short story in such a way that I had the impression of finding myself in front of a watchmaker who is dismantling a watch to 'see' how it works."
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