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Jorge Luis Borges: Can a great writer be blind to the world around him

February 7th, 2007

Jorge Borges Clive James: “His apparently detached political position was not regarded as beyond cavil by other Argentine writers, who admired his art but questioned his relaxation into international eminence at a moment when his homeland was in the grip of terror.”

Zie ook: Cultural Amnesia, a compendium of the intellectuals, artists, and thinkers who shaped the 20th century.

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