A book is more than a verbal structure or series of verbal structures; it is the dialogue it establishes with its reader and the intonation it imposes upon his voice and the changing and durable images it leaves in his memory. A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships.


"Note on (toward) Bernard Shaw" ["Nota sobre (hacia) Bernard Shaw"] (1951) - Other Inquisitions (1952)

Jorge Luis Borges Quotes

A book is more than a verbal structure or series of verbal structures; it is the dialogue it establishes with its reader and the intonation it...

A book is more than a verbal structure or series of verbal structures; it is the dialogue it establishes with its reader and the intonation it...

A book is more than a verbal structure or series of verbal structures; it is the dialogue it establishes with its reader and the intonation it...

A book is more than a verbal structure or series of verbal structures; it is the dialogue it establishes with its reader and the intonation it...