Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site dartvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!decvax!dartvax!karl From: karl@dartvax.UUCP (Karl Berry) Newsgroups: net.books Subject: Borges: reviewer or author? Message-ID: <782@dartvax.UUCP> Date: Fri, 2-Mar-84 21:34:47 EST Article-I.D.: dartvax.782 Posted: Fri Mar 2 21:34:47 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 4-Mar-84 07:40:36 EST Distribution: net.books,net.sf-lovers Organization: Dartmouth College Lines: 11 I recently picked up a copy of The Aleph and Other Stories, mostly at the urging of Harlan Ellison's introduction to Totenbuch, and the third story is The Approach to al-Matrasiz. Oops, that's not quite the right title, but I forgot to write it down. Anyway, it's ostensibly a book review of the book A Man called al-Matrasiz. ( May as well be consistently wrong. ) Ostensibly. Does anyone know whether or not this book actually existed, if Borges is truly doing a book review, or is he making it up? I suspect the latter, but it's done very well. ( Well enough so as to leave doubt in my mind... ) {decvax,cornell}!dartvax!karl