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I hear the caviling voices

I am acting as an evaluative filter, winnowing a very large field of possibilities down to a manageable absorbale Best for your delectation

an undifferentiated mass of high-quality description and trenchant reflection that becomes both numbing and euphoric

next to which the epiphanies of Joyce or redemptions of O'Connor seem pallid or crude

The truth, briefly stated, is that Borges is arguably the great bridge between modernism and postmodernism in world literature. He is a modernist in that his fiction shows a first-rate human mind stripped of all foundations in religious or ideological certainty--a mind turned thus wholly in on itse…