karl@dartvax.UUCP (Karl Berry) (03/03/84)
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