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• W4246631704 abstract "2 8 Y T H R E E R E C O L L E C T I O N S O F B O R G E S Y V E S B O N N E F O Y Translated by Hoyt Rogers In my memory, I turn the pages of one of my keepsake books. It holds some images of a man whose life hinged on a su√ering, old and profound, which his quiet reserve never allowed him to mention . That was my impression of him, right from the start. Three recollections, beginning with our first encounter in Cambridge , Massachusetts, in 1967. Borges was slated to give the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures at Harvard that winter. I admired him, convinced I would like the man I guessed he must be. Jorge Guillén was living in Cambridge, too, and I saw him often, either alone or for lunch with Paul de Man. When I spoke to him of Borges, Jorge said, ‘‘He’s here already, settling in. Write him, and ask if you could meet.’’ I wrote him, but ten days went by, and still no reply. At last, Guillén reported to me with a laugh, ‘‘Guess what? I called on Borges yesterday, and Elsa took me aside. ‘Do you know this woman?’ she asked in a low voice. She had your letter in her hand. Borges had said your first name out loud, so she decided to keep him from seeing you.’’ My first name? It’s pronounced like the English name Eve – a temptress who fouled up everything on earth, reputedly. That 2 9 R Borges should have a wife was a novelty: it was rumored his mother had forced her on him when she had grown too old to travel with him herself. True or false, Elsa shared his existence only a very few years. It would be hard to imagine two beings more dissimilar, and the author’s old friends, several of whom resided in Cambridge, felt unhappy and disconcerted about her role. ‘‘You’re mistaken,’’ Guillén informed her. ‘‘He’s not a woman; and he happens to be a friend of mine. He’s no threat to you. So please let Borges answer him.’’ One evening, Borges phoned me. He agreed to come to dinner at our house on Francis Avenue. For that stay, which lasted about a year, my wife and I had rented a small frame house; it adjoined a larger one, raised by four or five steps, that surveyed the street between two wooden columns. We had fallen in love with the creaking floors and the windowpanes flush against the trees. This modest place exemplified a way of being in the world – which is why those who leave New England feel such a homesickness ever after. We laid fires in the chimney: now it was spring, with leafy branches on every side, and now it was autumn. Then all those leaves turned red and gold before they fell, in such profusion they crackled softly under our feet. And soon enough there was snow; it had snowed the day the Borgeses came to dinner. Even though I had never met him before, he conversed with me openly right away – he always placed that trust in those who sought him out, I gathered. He had just returned from Concord, he explained. He’d been eager to visit Hawthorne’s house since he admired him enormously. Out of devotion to this great writer, he had knelt on the doorstep, despite the bitter cold and heavy snow. Perhaps he had done so in part because of the life Hawthorne had led there, in a community imbued by faith – though a faith Borges himself certainly didn’t profess. Then he asked me, ‘‘Have you ever read ‘Wakefield’?’’ Since I hadn’t read ‘‘Wakefield,’’ Borges summarized the tale for me in French. A man tells his wife he is going out of town for a day or two. He takes leave of her with a sourire idiot, a ‘‘stupid smile.’’ But a few streets away, he stops. Why travel any farther, he shrugs. He takes a room in a..." @default.
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