Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish language literature
"Guayaquil", in Brodie's Report (1970); tr. Andrew Hurley, Collected Fictions (1998)
“When the possessions and households of citizens are no longer honored by the acts, as well as the principles, of their government, then the concentration camp ceases to be one of the possibilities of human nature and becomes one of its likelihoods.”
"The Landscaping of Hell : Strip-Mine Morality" (1965).
The Long-Legged House (1969)
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