Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0005752, Fri, 23 Feb 2001 16:03:35 -0800

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Query: Borges quote source?
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From: Suellen Stringer-Hye <Stringers@LIBRARY.Vanderbilt.edu>
Organization: Vanderbilt University



Do you know where Borges states the hypothesis by Colleen M Sullivan
<cms223@nyu.edu> below? I've been
looking for the quotation for a while but have forgotten where I saw it.

Thanks,
Suellen

Suellen Stringer-Hye
Jean and Alexander Heard Library
Vanderbilt University
stringers@library.vanderbilt.edu
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This calls to mind Borges' hypothesis - that each writer creates his or
her precursors, for it is through the synthesis of their qualities in
his or her work that one can see the affinities between them, that is,
between the model and the influenced, and among models.