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Borges: the man and the brand

14 August 2021

9:00 AM

14 August 2021

9:00 AM

Borges and Me: An Encounter Jay Parini

Canongate, pp.320, 14.99

‘The story that Jay Parini recounts in Borges and Me is untrue,’ a recent letter in the TLS claimed, ‘and it should be understood as fiction.’ The author, Maria Kodama, Borges’s widow and literary executor, has also told the press that she ‘will have to act in some way or other’ should the book come out in Argentina.

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