viernes, 21 de noviembre de 2008

"Borges, His Days And His Time"

I'm rereading the book of Maria Esther Vazquez of the same title as this entry.

The book is presented as an approach to Borges, is not intended to be a definitive analysis. This kind of work I like, free from academic rigors of formal literary analysis. They allow people like me, interested in literature in general or an author in particular, to understand better the work that they are interested in, with a minimum of preparation.

The book begins by presenting a 65 years old Borges. It is interesting to bring this in mind, because, while Borges, certainly had a great technical skill at that time, he was decimated by blindness and loneliness, the absence of people similar to him.

Borges, as the author narrates, was quite friendly, looking to give those who were close to him with his greatest treasure: its culture and way of seeing the world.

To the physical limits to which I referred added their lifestyle, materially modest. However, his work shows how much his intellect made with such resources.

He was able to enrich the world, to enrich us all with his writings. With minimal resources he obtained a work intellectually overwhelming. That is the mark of a genius.

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