Today would have been the 112th birthday of Jorge Luis Borges, the esteemed Argentine writer who championed the science fiction genre with his depictions of unreality.
This is an archived Paris Review interview he did back in July of 1966 that tracks his daily routine, notes the idiosyncrasies of his speech and the epic qualities that he admires in West Side Story. One way to understand his fictional unreality is shedding light on his quotidian reality. It’s a great interview and preserves the quirks in his English colloquialisms, which are notably different from his literary style.
