Viking conceived a fitting centenary commemoration for this Argentine enigma, the Franz Kafka of our age, who is generally read in pieces: A massive three-volume translation of Borges’ fiction, poetry and nonfiction. Consider a few of his obsessions: Anything expressed in words (religion, philosophy) is fiction fiction and nonfiction are indistinguishable meaning is determined by the reader artists alter the past by making us see it differently opposites resemble nothing so much as each other. Nevertheless, reading him today we discover that he speaks directly to our postmodern sensibility. So erudite and allusive, Borges seemed always to have been 100 years old.
24, Jorge Luis Borges, who died in 1986, would have been 100 years old.
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