Jorge Luis Borges' writings on memory foretell modern research, Gabriel Kreiman finds.
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Kreiman, G. Neuroscience: Literary inspiration. Nature 475, 453 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/475453a
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Guillermo Napolitano
The short stories of Jorge Luis Borges are typically to be found in the category of "fantastic literature", whatever that means, a common place for Latin-American writers. I always understood that as a prejudice of literary critics, limiting the influence of the literature from that part of the continent to the surreal, the magic or the superstitious; a literature with limited capacity to grasp the discernable reality. This prejudice has been especially unfair to Borges, whose ?literary fantasies? are masterpices reflecting the true and unique human condition. As Octavio Paz put it: Borges was a writer who ?transformed metaphysics into a literary genre?. The subject of this book is a well deserved recognition to this great but not so ?fantastic? writer.