Borges, Jorge Luis | C. J. Buchanan (essay date 1996)
C. J. Buchanan (essay date 1996)
SOURCE: “J. L. Borges's Lovecraftian Tale: ‘There Are More Things’ in the Dream Than We Know,” in Extrapolation, Vol. 37, No. 4, Winter, 1996, pp. 357–63.
[In the following essay on Borges's debt to the writer H. P. Lovecraft, Buchanan discusses the nature of the minotaur in the Borgesian labyrinth.]
This tale of Jorge Luis Borges, “There Are More Things,” is almost unremarked in Barton Levi St. Armand's wide-ranging, incisive essay “Synchronistic Worlds: Lovecraft and Borges.” We do find a slight reference to it, however, in this best collection of articles yet published in the field of the weird tale. St. Armand quotes Borges speaking in a 1978 interview with Paul Theroux: “I like Lovecraft's horror stories. His plots are very good, but his style is atrocious. I once dedicated a story to him” (300).
That story is, of course, the one presently under discussion. In other...
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