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Borges (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)

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Although at first glance, Edwin Williamson's Borges: A Life seems an exhaustively comprehensive biography of Argentina's most famous writer, the reader will find that in the end, the subject remains enigmatic. This is true despite the fact that, as Williamson attempts to show and Jorge Luis Borges himself insisted, much of Borges's writing is autobiographical. Williamson, a professor of Spanish literature at Oxford University, takes great pains to psychoanalyze Borges, particularly through his writing, and succeeds in part because Borges's writing was actually more exciting than...

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