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Title: Borges as Borges the 'maker'
Review: This is supposedly the book that Borges thought his most intimate and personal. Each small story, sketch, parable, poem provides insight into the imagination of one of the great literary creators of all time. His ability to condense into a few lines or paragraphs - worlds of theme and question are unmatched except by his holy predecessor Kafka.'El Hacedor' 'The Maker' the title - story is of course who Homer and Shakespeare and Borges are and are not. In Borges perhaps most famous essay- story- reflection- poem 'Borges and I' he considers the relationship between the person he is , and the name he has become- and he playfully puts down the legend while understanding it is already confounded with the real passing Borges.To read this work and his work is to come alive to new possibilies in Literature in Imagination and in Life.A true creation is a great gift of life.Borges gives us Borges and much much more besides.
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