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In praise of mistranslation: the melancholy cosmopolitanism of Jorge Luis Borges.
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The Romanic Review
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March 1, 2007
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Jorge Luis Borges, we are told, devoted the last few weeks of his life to learning Arabic, with the help of an Egyptian teacher living in Switzerland. (1) In this most appropriately enigmatic of Borgesian endings, it is tempting to read two contradictory aspects of Borges. On the one hand, this sense of an ending is in character with Borges the unrelenting cosmopolitan, who would die far from his native Buenos Aires, and who, having mastered English and Spanish since birth, French, German and Latin in his teenage years in Geneva, Italian along the way, (2) and old Norse in his sixties, was attempting, in the face of death, to acquire the rudiments of an ultimate, and ultimately ...
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