Radio Borges

In a conversation on Melvyn Bragg's In Our Time, Evelyn Fishburn claims that Borges "wasn't an original thinker, he was an original writer." Instead of systematizing his ideas, aligning them with a theoretical language, he enacts them as a reality of its own. Just as Husserl says of consciousness, Borges' work "streams into the life-world," shaping it as it opens itself up into the openness.

By 60 years of age, Borges was completely blind, embracing (for us) the image of the blind poet who recites his work from memory and composes in compact packets of prose and poetry. His blindness, as a metaphor, liberates his work from the perceptible, human world, allowing it to take on its own sensory organs, understanding, and consciousness.