How many fabulously learned books, which never mention Jorge Luis Borges, have been inspired by Borges’ fictions about learned books? This is Guy Stroumsa, in a soon-to-be-published memoir: “À la même époque [in the late 1960s], lisant Borges, je découvrais le charme baroque des savoirs ésotériques …” The rest of that fiction, we could say, is history.
D. L. Dusenbury 