Volodia TEITELBOIM. The Two Borges: Life, Language, Dreams. Santiago: Sudamericana Chilena Editorial, 1996.

Abstract

In the preparation of this book, Volodia Teitelboim faced several challenges such as having to rely on bibliographical sources. Unlike his previous works ― on Neruda, Mistral, and Huidobro ― where the awakening of memory played an important role; justifying his undeniable admiration for the work of an author situated at the antipodes of what are known to be his personal preferences; seeking to say something new about a writer to whom thousands of pages of studies in dozens of books have been devoted, seemingly exhausting all options for innovative analysis. And what is admirable is that the essayist has overcome such challenges. The most important one, that of ideological distances, achieved through a determined willingness to appreciate the nature of Borges' talent...