“Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.”

—  Jorge Luis Borges , book Labyrinths

"Partial Magic in the Quixote", Labyrinths (1964)

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Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator… 1899–1986

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