Books: The Man of Many Mirrors

DREAMTIGERS by Jorge Luis Borges. 95 pages. Texas. $4.

For eight years, Argentina's greatest writer, Jorge Luis Borges, has been blind. Yet Borges' latest book of poems and parables shows that blindness has not blurred his poetic vision. In his parable of blind Homer, Borges describes himself as well: "He descended into his memory, which seemed to him endless, and up from the vertigo he succeeded in bringing forth a forgotten recollection that shone like a coin under the rain."

Relief in an Image. No other writer of this era has so movingly championed...

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