El factor Borges

What is the key, the password or the matchless molecule that constitutes the essence of what is Borgean? Alan Pauls strings together, in his own way, an instruction manual that accounts for the most important work of Argentine literature. But more than a set of critical essays, The Borges Factor goes through the main concepts associated with that universe -originality, tradition, library- to map not only the core of its texts, but also the configuration of its identity. A search as deep as it is incessant for the image that the writer projected during his lifetime and posthumously and, of course, that perfect machinery that anticipated his time and transcends its own syntax. Also what we do not always get to consider about Borges finds a dimension in this book. Even his persevering quarrelsome nature and those subtle but significant strategies that Pauls masterfully plays, such as the apparent coquetry of taking just one year off his age to coincide exactly with the century he happened to live.