Volume 13, Number 9 · November 20, 1969
Imaginary Borges
By William H. Gass
The Book of Imaginary Beings
by Jorge Luis Borges with Margarita Guerrero, translated by Norman Thomas di Giovanni, in collaboration with the author.
Dutton, 139 pp., $6.95
Conversations with Jorge Luis Borges
by Richard Burgin
Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 144 pp., $3.95
The Narrow Act: Borges' Art of Allusion
by Ronald Christ
New York University, 244 pp., $6.95
Among Paul Valéry's jottings, André Maurois observes the following: 'Idea for a frightening story: it is discovered that the only remedy for cancer is living human flesh. Consequences.'
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