So here is the secret Borges leaves us:
We are all immortals — just backward.
And yet — Borges himself is immortal.
Jorge Luis Borges belongs to the latter — a blind librarian who saw infinity in a chessboard, a man who wrote essays disguised as fiction and fiction disguised as footnotes. But more than anything, Borges wrote about immortality — not as a blessing, but as a beautiful, terrifying labyrinth. the immortal borges
The Immortal Borges: Labyrinths, Mirrors, and the Man Who Outlived Himself So here is the secret Borges leaves us:
There are writers you read to learn a story. Then there are writers you read to unlearn time. But more than anything, Borges wrote about immortality
To read Borges is to enter a hall of mirrors. You think you’re reading about a Chinese emperor’s map, or a library of hexagonal rooms, or a man who dreams another man — but really, you’re reading about reading. About the shimmering impossibility of a final page.