[New-Poetry] Borges

[Roger Day]

Nice one, dude. Link is here: http://bostonreview.net/BR03.2/kovacs.html

Of course, his support of the Videla regime meant that JLB *could*
travel abroad with impunity.

I contacted Mark Weiss about this and he points out  Gaither Stewart's
naievety (could he not use google?), and JLB's anti-semitism
(sometimes it seems that every major author of the 20th Century had
that ... affliction).

Ever since I read of Adorno's backstabbing of Benjamin, I've been
interested in the behavior of artists under stress or at defining
moments. See Gunter Grass, amongst many, many others, including the
sainted Gertrude Stein. Of course, this feeds into the "feet of clay"
trope.

Roger

On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 9:33 PM, David Bircumshaw
<david.bircumshaw at ntlworld.com> wrote:
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>  >From 'Borges and the Right' originally published in the Fall, 1977 edition
> of The Boston Review:
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<snipped lots of interesting stuff>
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