Volume 17, Number 6 · October 21, 1971
Borges on Borges
By Jorge Luis Borges, Translated from the Spanish by Norman Thomas di Giovanni
Kipling's last stories were no less tormented and mazelike than those of Kafka or Henry James, which they doubtless surpass; but in 1885, in Lahore, the young Kipling began a series of brief tales, written in a straightforward manner, that he was to collect in 1890. Several of them—'In the House of Suddhoo,' 'Beyond the Pale,' 'The Gate of the Hundred Sorrows'—are laconic masterpieces. It occurred to me that what was conceived and carried out by a young man of genius might modestly be attempted by a man on the borders of old age who knows his craft. Out of that idea came my new book, Doctor Brodie's Report.
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