[ilds] Borges-II

[G.R. Taneja]

Re Charles below:



 
I should have added that while Larry told Ian ("LD in
conversation with INM 7 May, 1985"--MacNiven, p. 727) he met Borges in a
party in Buenos Aires, Ian writes: "Larry was suitably complimentary,
Borges polite. . . . In future, Larry would often name Borges among those
writers with whom he was most in sympathy. At any rate Borges's philosophic
flight accurately prefigured Larry's declared application of the _gigogne_ image
to his future _Avignon Quintet_." MacNiven, p. 358.

 

Gulshan Taneja

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I believe that I am correct in recalling he cocktail party at which
Durrell and Borges met did not go so well.  Both writers were wary for
whatever reasons and kept to their corners.   I may be remembering
darkly or engaging in an apocryphal distortion, but I believe that bit
of biography came from the biographer himself in a conversation while I
was preparing the text for Durrell's "Minor Mythologies" essay.




Charles

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