Chekhov's Mistress
Words Without Borders
Leave it to Words Without Borders to consistently let you know just how little you know about international literature. This month’s issue is on Mexico. I suggest as an entry point, Alain-Paul Mallard’s “Ameising:”
Ants and their meticulous wandering. A suitable subject for digression. I owe to James Joyce—via the caustic courtesy of Jorge Luis Borges—the ability to perceive and name the modest epiphany from which, or towards which, these meanderings lead.
Borges was never too fond of the Joycean. Sometime in the past, under the title Borges and Joyce, I collected a good number of his pronouncements on the subject. Not yet blind—his sight began to decline gradually in the twenties and was completely gone by the mid fifties—Borges closed his “Brief Biography” of Joyce in the February 1937 issue of the magazine El Hogar on an expressively laconic note: “He’s blind.”
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Excellent post. And excellent blog…
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- Posted by: Bud Parr
- Date: February 06, 2006
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