The Borges Enigma: Mirrors, Doubles, and Intimate Puzzles

Explores Borges's supreme literary craftsmanship and the intimate puzzles of his fictions.

Borges once stated that he had never created a character: 'It's always me, subtly disguised'. This book focuses on the ways in which Borges uses events and experiences from his own life, in order to demonstrate how they become the principal structuring motifs of his work. It aims to show how these experiences, despite being 'heavily disguised', are crucial components of some of Borges's most canonical ...