From: C R Culver <CRCulver@AOL.COM>
Subject: (urth) Borges' Language Use
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 23:26:11 EDT


[Posted from URTH, a mailing list about Gene Wolfe's New Sun and other works]

<Borges was fluent in English, at least
conversationally, if I remember correctly?>

Yes, but in a biography about him, written by a close friend of his, whose
name I don't recall, said that although he was very fluent in English, it was
Spanish writing that he labored to perfect.

Christopher R. Culver <crculver@aol.com>
http://members.aol.com/crculver/index.html
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