I am not sure that I exist, in fact. I am all the writers I have read, all the people I have met, all the women I have loved; all the cities I have visited, all the ancestors I have had.
— Jorge Luis Borges Modern

Short fiction, magical realism

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Interview with Willis Barnstone, 'The New York Times Book Review'

Date / Period

1981

Category

Controversial

Source

https://www.nytimes.com/1981/04/12/books/writing-the-labyrinth.html

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